West Point 

In The Making of America

By Barton C. Hacker and Margaret Vining

Hydra Publishing, Irvington, New York, 2002. First Edition. Large Oversize Hard Cover. Book Condition: Like New. Pictorial Boards. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Price Unclipped. Pictorial Endpapers, glossy pictorial boards. Clean, crisp and solid. Profusely Illustrated with Color and B/W Photos and Illustrations. Maps. Index. 160 pages.

Celebrating the 200th anniversary of America's preeminent military academy, this volume features more than 200 full-color illustrations, including historical art and photos never previously published. Highly informative and illustrated with hundreds of rare images, West Point in the Making of America charts the extraordinary roles that West Point graduates have played in the growth of the United States from a struggling new nation to a world power. Over 50 Biographies of graduates, including Robert E. Lee & Benjamin O. Davis, Jr.; Period illustrations, such as the first accurate map of the nation west of the Mississippi; Family memorabilia, such as George Armstrong Custer's buckskin coat. Foreword by Senator Jack Reed (West Point Class of 1971).