Last in Their Class: Custer, Pickett and the Goats of West Point by James S. Robbins
BUY IT NEW
- $26.95 List price$25.60 Online price$23.04 Member price(Save 14%)Limited Time Offer! Everyone receives the Member Price on books.
See Details
Reserve it at BN.com & pick it up in 60 minutes at your local store.
Enter a zip code
(Hardcover)
- Pub. Date: May 2006
- 500pp
- Sales Rank: 167,033
Buy it Used: 15 copies from $7.47 See All Available
Customers who bought this also bought
Product Details
- Pub. Date: May 2006
- Publisher: Encounter Books
- Format: Hardcover, 500pp
- Sales Rank: 167,033
- ISBN-13: 9781594031410
- ISBN: 159403141X
Synopsis
Today's Goat, the West Point cadet finishing at the bottom of his class, is temporary celebrity among his classmates. But in the 19th century, he was something of a cult figure. Custer's contemporaries at the Academy believed that the same spirit of adventure that led him to carouse at local taverns motivated his dramatic cavalry attacks in the Civil War and afterwards. And the same willingness to accept punishment from Academy authorities also sent George Pickett into the teeth of the Union guns at Gettsyburg. The story James S. Robbins tells goes from the beginnings of West Point through the carnage of the Civil War to the grassy bluffs over the Little Big Horn. The Goats he profiles tell us much about the soul of the American solider, his daring, imagination and desire to prove himself against high odds.
Customer Reviews
Last in Their Class: Custer, Pickett and the Goats of West Pointby Anonymous
Reader Rating:
See Detailed Ratings
March 31, 2006: Was pleasantly surprised by the depth and traetment of the subject material. Provides a valuable glimpse of ante bellum military and political culture in the U.S.
Loading...