Thomas Jefferson's military academy : founding West Point / edited by Robert M.S. McDonald.

Other author McDonald, Robert M. S., 1970-
Format Book
Publication InfoCharlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2004.
Descriptionxix, 233 pages ; 24 cm.
Supplemental ContentTable of contents
Subjects

SeriesJeffersonian America
Jeffersonian America. ^A426223
Contents Introduction / Peter S. Onuf -- Military education before West Point / Don Higginbotham -- "Necessary and proper": West Point and Jefferson's constitutionalism / David N. Mayer -- Great men and embryo-Caesars: John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and the figure in arms / Elizabeth D. Samet -- The Military Academy in the context of Jeffersonian reform / Theodore J. Crackel -- Mr. Jefferson's Academy: an educational interpretation / Jennings L. Wagoner Jr. and Christine Coalwell McDonald -- Developing "republican machines": West Point and the struggle to render the Officer Corps safe for America, 1802-33 / Samuel J. Watson -- West Point's lost founder: Jefferson remembered, forgotten, and reconsidered / Robert M.S. McDonald -- Afterword: The role of military virtues in preserving our republican institutions / Jean M. Yarbrough.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2004008745
ISBN0813922984 (cloth : acid-free paper)

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Joyner General Stacks U410.L1 T49 2004 ✔ Available Place Hold