{ "item_title" : "Other Leaders, Other Heroes", "item_author" : [" James R. Endler", "Howard D. Graves", "Howard D. Graves "], "item_description" : "Publisher Description:As West Point celebrates its bicentennial, this study provides examples ofsignificant non-combat contributions made by Military Academy graduates to thedevelopment and growth of the United States. It includes a sampling of theaccomplishments of the military academy's doctors, clergy, builders, andeducators, and tells the story of the statesmen, engineers, industrialists andfinanciers, artists, and writers who all began their careers at the MilitaryAcademy. Their success prompted President Theodore Roosevelt to remark at thecentennial celebration that "no other educational institution in the landhas contributed as many names as West Point has contributed to the honor roll ofthe nation's citizens." After two hundred years, West Point continues toprovide the nation with men, as well as women, of character, trained toundertake the leadership and direction of large enterprises, both in war andpeace.Civilian universities produce graduates who are particularly skilled in theirprimary subject of academic study. At West Point, that primary subject isleadership. West Point graduates were instrumental in the exploration andmapping of unknown territory west of the Mississippi, as well as the unknownreaches of space. They have been elected or appointed to serve at every level offederal, state, and local government, from the office of the president to localboards of education. Graduates of West Point, the sole engineering institutionin the nation until 1824, were selected to head the new engineering schoolsestablished at some of the nation's most prestigious universities, includingYale and Harvard. Readers will be surprised at the wide range of contributionsthat Academy graduates have made in our nation's history."What emerges from this collective portrait is that these were men who, toa superior degree, learned how to learn, which flatly contradicts the conceptionof minds narrowed and constricted by military education....[T]here is nothingelse quite like this valuable book."", "item_img_path" : "https://covers4.booksamillion.com/covers/bam/0/27/596/369/0275963691_b.jpg", "price_data" : { "retail_price" : "100.00", "online_price" : "100.00", "our_price" : "100.00", "club_price" : "100.00", "savings_pct" : "0", "savings_amt" : "0.00", "club_savings_pct" : "0", "club_savings_amt" : "0.00", "discount_pct" : "10", "store_price" : "" } }

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