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Thomas Jefferson's military academy : founding West Point

Author: Robert M S McDonald
Publisher: Charlottesville, Va. : University of Virginia Press, 2004.
Series: Jeffersonian America.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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"Thomas Jefferson's Military Academy is the most comprehensive treatment to date of the origins, purposes, and legacies of the school Jefferson established 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
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Named Person: Thomas Jefferson; Thomas Jefferson; Thomas Jefferson
Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Robert M S McDonald
ISBN: 0813922984 9780813922980
OCLC Number: 55016997
Description: xix, 233 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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.
Series Title: Jeffersonian America.
Responsibility: edited by Robert M.S. McDonald.
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"Thomas Jefferson's Military Academy is the most comprehensive treatment to date of the origins, purposes, and legacies of the school Jefferson established 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.

Although Jefferson feared the potential power of a standing army, the contributors point out he also contended that "whatever enables us to go to war, secures our peace." They take a broad view of Jeffersonian security policy, exploring the ways in which West Point bolstered America's defenses against foreign aggression and domestic threats to the ideals of the American Revolution." "Thomas Jefferson's Military Academy should appeal to scholars and general readers interested in military history and the founding generation."--BOOK JACKET.

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