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Summary: All who love America ought to experience this book
Review: "West Point:Thomas Jefferson:Character,Leadership,Education" by Norman Thomas Remick not only breaks new history about Thomas Jefferson, West Point, and America, but puts it back together. The author employs a creative and fascinating approach to do so, presenting his extensive research as a story which I found to be enjoyable and educational. I certainly recommend that all who love America ought to experience this book.
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Summary: All who love America ought to experience this book
Review: "West Point:Thomas Jefferson:Character,Leadership,Education" by Norman Thomas Remick not only breaks new history about Thomas Jefferson, West Point, and America, but puts it back together. The author employs a creative and fascinating approach to do so, presenting his extensive research as a story which I found to be enjoyable and educational. I certainly recommend that all who love America ought to experience this book.
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Summary: Postmodern Pop Narrative Of West Point History
Review: A breath of fresh air from all the typically dry, uninspiring, uncomprehensible, pretentious, high-brow, gadfly, skullduggery on the subject, which make good kindling for a fire.
Norman Thomas Remick is an interesting, independent scholar with a sense character and, more importantly, a sense of humor.
Do yourself a favor, and buy this book, because it's so original...scholarly text with cartoons and photos! This one won't collect too much dust. One of my favorites: P.289 The cartoon of Thomas Jefferson throwing up his hands saying, "STEADY ON THERE! I DIDN'T SAY A MILITARY ACADEMY WASN'T A GOOD IDEA. I ONLY SAID IT'S NOT CONSTITUTIONAL!"
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Summary: Highly Recommended
Review: A wonderful book. There. All my thoughts in three words. Any fairminded American will find this book's groundbreaking work on the connections between the evolution of American virtue, Thomas Jefferson, and West Point to be fascinating and enlightening.
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Summary: New Thomas Jefferson History
Review: Although this book is creatively presented as a story, not written in a scholarly manner for presention to a historical journal, it does, in fact, give notice to the world of a new historical breakthrough by this researcher about Thomas Jefferson. Not a biography, it is one of the few books written in years that offers truly new historical information about Jefferson. It uncovers a hitherto secret, but incredibly important achievment by him as our 3rd President (I do not count the Sally Hemings story as important, which anyway, has since been discredited). To understand Thomas Jefferson the author draws on what Jefferson himself read and wrote, taking us on an interesting and educational journey through the historical/philosophical evolution of character and leadership, the common threads that connect America, West Point, and Thomas Jefferson. The practical upshot of this book's nexus between Jefferson, West Point, and American character and leadership is to remind or teach today's skeptical and hostile outside world that America and Americans are something substantially different than the impressions given by movies, television, and multi-national corporations.
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Summary: Why Is This Book Not A Bestseller?
Review: An objective, well researched book that does what the Amazon description says it does. Any reasonable person will value, enjoy, and understand its message and presentation. Why is this book not a bestseller? The problem is not the book, but those who purposely try to distort its message (one star reviews) and use it for hate rather than love. The solution is not to avoid learning its message, but rather to promote the kind of gift of love throughout the world that is contained in Mr. Remick's noble literary effort. It should be read by as many people as possible.
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Summary: Huge Research on Jefferson, West Point, Character Leadership
Review: Any fairminded third party who has nothing to gain or lose will recognise this as an extraordinary book that deserves a five star rating. As one who is in the profession of putting old heads onto young shoulders, I would grade this work "A+" for content -- the author obviously did incredibly huge research and reading on Jefferson, West Point, and the philosophy of character and leadership. I would give it an "A" for presention -- it is not only creative, but the only book I have ever seen with a presentation that is engineered. I would give it an "A-" for the writing -- because I prefer standard prose, but recognise how difficult and courageous it is to do something different by writing the way people speak, like the script of a movie, to make you feel that you are there. On balance, it's not a perfect "A+", but still deserves five stars. In my opinion, anyone who would give this book one star is marching to someone else's drummer. See for yourself. Read the book.
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Summary: Great Book
Review: Any honest reviewer, or true supporter of West Point and Thomas Jefferson, or true West Point graduate will enjoy this book. As all of the above, I thought it was great.
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Summary: Virtue is it's own joyous reward
Review: Any reasonable, truth seeking person will find this work outstanding, especially for the young and for those who influence young people. It offers a touchstone for success for all walks of life. Mr. Remick has put into understandable words the importance of virtue for a successful US military and a moral United States. I agree with Mr. Remick that virtue can be tought. I also agree that humans striving to learn virtue require an arduous and prolonged experience similar to the West Point experience. Civil society requires a "remnent" of virtuous, well educated
leaders with moral character. The West Point model is a remarkable and unreplaceable resource for the continuation of our free republic. Some friendly editing would make this book even better.
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Summary: Highly Recommended
Review: As a former member of the West Point teaching staff and prolific West Point reader, I can say this is one of those books that was long overdue to to be written. I often thought about trying it, but never could quite figure out how to do it without the incredible amount of research required. The structure, content, and storyline are well presented -- and imaginatively at that. I loved the author's tool of using cartooned text as scenarios from history. It kept the seriousness and importance of the book refreshing. All in all, this is probably the most valuable and important book about West Point that has come along since, as the author proved, Thomas Jefferson brainstormed its founding in 1802.
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