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Understanding West Point: What Cadets Must Do at West Point, and Why
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Understanding West Point: What Cadets Must Do at West Point, and Why
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by Norman Thomas Remick
Sales Rank : 118498
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Hardcover: 432 pages
Publisher: Rpr 2001
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0967487919
ISBN-13: 978-0967487915
Product Dimensions:
9.4 x 6.4 x 1.3 inches
Shipping Weight: 2 pounds
Product Review
"The format is wonderful and made it easy to read, interesting, and understandable." -- Letter from Kansas
"Congratulations on accomplishing something that I have long thought about doing. You have done a brilliant job!" -- A retired member of West Point's teaching staff
"You were astute to spot the glaring needand seem to have done a wonderful job filling that void." -- Letter from West Point's Director of Admissions, Col. M. Jones
"The format is wonderful and made it easy to read, interesting, and understandable." -- Letter from Kansas<br /><br />"Congratulations on accomplishing something that I have long thought about doing. You have done a brilliant job!" -- A retired member of West Point's teaching staff<br /><br />"You were astute to spot the glaring needand seem to have done a wonderful job filling that void." -- Letter from West Point's Director of Admissions, Col. M. Jones<br />
A FEW OF THE MANY WAYS IN WHICH THIS BOOK WILL HELP YOU
1. APPLICANTS, PARENTS, AND YOU. Helps you to decide if West Point is for you (or yours) by telling you, not only what cadets have to do, but most important, why .
2. HELPS IN THE FIGHT AGAINST TERRORISM. Brings the real America and what it means to be an American into clear focus to support our fight against the enemy.
3. TEACH OUR CHILDREN WELL. Supplies you with a treasure trove of great moral stories to use in teaching young people character through moral imitation.
4. UNDERSTAND LIFE. Makes the philosophy needed to understand life easy and clear so you can use it in dealing with life's problems, in conversations, and in impressing people.
<b.5. SIMPLY MAKES YOU A MORE LERNED PERSON. Uses the books from Thomas Jefferson's own library to give you the goldmine of information, that you don't get in school, that taught Thomas Jefferson himself.
6. MEET THOMAS JEFFERSON.A biography of our intellectual father that finally explains his mysterious personality.
If you are someone who is trying to decide whether to attend West Point, or someone who simply wants to understand West Point, this book is for you. It is the only book written on understanding the real West Point. It is the gold standard. It took the author ten years of original research to discover the true, still little-understood significance of West Point to America, to our culture, and to our way of life, far beyond what Americans realize. The author is the only one who has ever devoted ten years to a book on West Point, and the only author who writes about West Point, not for profit, but dedicates his work philanthropically. He is not a university professor who must publish or perish, nor is he earning a living from our tax money for teaching at West Point while writing a book at West Point. He does it to inform all Americans, even West Pointers and their families. --Rpr
Product Description
"WEST POINT: Thomas Jefferson: Character Leadership Education" is author Norman Thomas Remick's successor to his pioneering book, "Mr. Jefferson's Academy: The Real Story Behind West Point", the one and only work that identifies and proves a heretofore secret Thomas Jefferson-West Point connection. This book is the penetrating account of a ten year search by Norman Thomas Remick, four years at West Point that tells you the way it is inside those fabled gray granite walls, and six years inside the research halls of libraries to uncover and decipher the code of archival facts that have brought to light a special historic relationship between Thomas Jefferson and West Point. Remick also details how this historic college produces leaders, why it does so the way it does, why America has a West Point to produce Officers when there are easier and cheaper ways to do so, and why Thomas Jefferson founded West Point in the first place. The secret behind why Jefferson founded West Point informs the contemporary controversy over whether America still needs a West Point at a cost of hundreds of millions per year in taxpayer dollars.
The book is not only unique in breaking new historical ground but it is also unique in its innovative presentation of true and accurate history. By employing creative nonfiction and the choice of a dramatic dialogue as narrative vehicle, the author gives us something here that is quite different and refreshing as he takes us on a journey through history and philosophy that winds its way from Ancient times to post American Revolution times to show us how the great moral stories of the world shaped Thomas Jefferson, and in turn, America and West Point.
The book is also an education, a special kind of education. Because the journey through history uses as its sources the same books Thomas Jefferson himself read that are in his famous library, when you read this book you are learning the same things that he learned. By cleverly converting the difficult history and philosophy contained in Jefferson's books into ordinary language and American vernacular, and weaving together hundreds of wonderful poems, anecdotes, and unusual scenarios, Remick has produced a timeless gem on West Point and Thomas Jefferson and leadership and character that will be an enjoyable and engaging and educational experience for years to come and for people of all ages and educational levels, not just scholars.
As an added bonus: Those who cannot visit West Point will enjoy the sixteen pages that the author has nicely blended into the storyline, including 24 full color pictures, that takes you on a virtual tour of West Point.
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