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Thomas Jefferson's military academy : founding West Point / edited by Robert M.S. McDonald.
Table of contents Available online
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- Book
- Series:
- Jeffersonian America
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826.
- Jefferson, Thomas.
- United States Military Academy--History--19th century.
- United States Military Academy.
- History.
- Military education.
- Physical Description:
- xix, 233 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2004.
- Summary:
- Why did Thomas Jefferson, who claimed to abhor war and fear standing armies, in 1802 establish the United States Military Academy? Thomas Jefferson's Military Academy is the most comprehensive treatment to date of the origin, purposes, and legacies of Jefferson's school on the cliffs above the Hudson River. In a series of essays, an interdisciplinary group of military historians, legal and constitutional scholars, and experts on Jefferson's thought challenge the conventional wisdom that the third president's founding of the academy should be regarded as accidental or ironic.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0813922984
- OCLC:
- 55016997
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