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The Citizen Soldiers. The Plattsburg Training Camp Movement, 1913-1920.
J. Garry Clifford
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Paperback. Num Pages: 340 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJF; HBJK; HBLW; HBWN; JWK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 617.
The Citizen Soldiers explores the military reform movement that took its name from the famous Business Men's Military Training Camps at Plattsburg, New York. It also illuminates the story of two exceptional men: General Leonard Wood, the rambunctious and controversial former Rough Rider who galvanized the Plattsburg Idea with his magnetic personality; and Grenville Clark, a young Wall Street lawyer.
The Plattsburg camps strove to advertise the lack of military preparation in the United States and stressed the military obligation every man owed to his country. Publicized by individuals who voluntarily underwent military training, the preparedness movement rapidly took ... Read more
The Citizen Soldiers explores the military reform movement that took its name from the famous Business Men's Military Training Camps at Plattsburg, New York. It also illuminates the story of two exceptional men: General Leonard Wood, the rambunctious and controversial former Rough Rider who galvanized the Plattsburg Idea with his magnetic personality; and Grenville Clark, a young Wall Street lawyer.
The Plattsburg camps strove to advertise the lack of military preparation in the United States and stressed the military obligation every man owed to his country. Publicized by individuals who voluntarily underwent military training, the preparedness movement rapidly took ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
The University Press of Kentucky United States
Number of pages
340
Condition
New
Number of Pages
342
Place of Publication
Lexington, United States
ISBN
9780813154077
SKU
V9780813154077
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About J. Garry Clifford
John Garry Clifford (1942–2014) was an American historian and professor of political science at the University of Connecticut, USA. He is the coauthor of The First Peacetime Draft and America Ascendant.
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