Volume 20, Number 16 · October 18, 1973
West Point and the Third Loyalty
By Gore Vidal
West Point: America's Power Fraternity
by K. Bruce Galloway, by Robert Bowie Johnson Jr.
Simon & Schuster, 448 pp., $10.00
Defeated: Inside America's Military Machine
by Stuart H. Loory
Random House, 405 pp., $10.00
On the table at which I write is a small silver mug with a square handle; it is inscribed to Eugene L. Vidal, Jr., October 3, 1925—a gift from the West Point football team to its mascot, which that year was not a mule but me. I drank milk from the cup for a good many years and from the look of the rim did a bit of teething on it, too.
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