Duty First

<em>Duty First</em> is a penetrating account of a year inside one of America's premier schools for leadership -- the United States Military Academy -- as it celebrates the bicentennial of its founding. Ed Ruggero a former West Point cadet and professor takes an incisive look at how this elite school builds the leaders of character who will command the nation's military.</p>Writing with deep insight and superb narrative skill Ruggero follows the cadet's tumultuous lives: the initial grueling training; the strict student hierarchy and intense classroom work; and the interaction between the lowly first-year plebes and the upper-class cadets who train them. <em>Duty First</em> also shows the role played by the majors captains and sergeants who oversee everything that happens at this unique institution.</p>