Accidental Soldier

A Reserve Officer at West Point in the Vietnam Era

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Richard B Schwartz

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Accidental Soldier depicts Richard B. Schwartz's military experiences, first as an ROTC cadet at the University of Notre Dame and finally as an Army veteran teaching in Madison, Wisconsin. In 1959, Vietnam was little more than a word on a map; within ten years, Americans saw the Tet Offensive and their campuses in flames. Schwartz was at the ground zeroes of that time, teaching at the United States Military Academy from 1967-69 and then going to the University of Wisconsin, Madison, just after the Dow riots and before the bombing of Sterling Hall. The central portion of the book focuses upon Schwartz's experience at West Point, its cadets, officer corps and system of education. A sequel to his award-winning memoir, The Biggest City in America, Accidental Soldier reflects upon his military and academic experience through the perspective of an over forty-year teaching career, twenty-nine of which were spent as a dean at Wisconsin, Georgetown and the University of Missouri, Columbia.

Author Biography:

Richard B. Schwartz is professor of English at the University of Missouri, Columbia. He has also taught at the United States Military Academy, The University of Wisconsin, Madison, and Georgetown University. Schwartz is the author and editor of eleven critical books, and he has also written four novels. This is his second memoir, following the award-winning The Biggest City in America: A Fifties Boyhood in Ohio.

Release date NZ

December 7th, 2009

Author

Richard B Schwartz

Audience

General (US: Trade)

Pages

210

Dimensions

154x231x15

ISBN-13

9780761848356

Product ID

3586175

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