A fascinating look at one of those times when the Marine Corps
struggled to exist.--Parameters[Shulimson] has produced a narrative
that is very readable and an important contribution to the history
of the Marine Corps.--Journal of Military HistoryA model monograph,
intensively researched and intelligently argued. Military
historians will obviously find it valuable, but so should all
students of institutional change.--Public HistorianAn important
addition to the literature on military professionalism as well as a
fine contribution to the history of the United States Marine
Corps.--Journal of American HistoryWill become known as the
standard history for these critical 18 years when the Corps' 20th
century mission was first conceived and demonstrated.--Marine Corps
GazetteA fine account of the struggle to create the modern US
Marine Corps.--Choice
The definitive study of the Gilded Age Marine Corps.--Allan R.
Millett, author of Semper Fidelis: The History of the U.S.
Marine CorpsA lively recounting of the formative years of the
modern Marine Corps. This book will be of interest and value to all
historians of the United States Navy and Marine Corps and can be
read with profit as well by anyone concerned with the process of
modernization in late nineteenth-century America.--Graham A.
Cosmas, coauthor of The U.S. Marines in Vietnam: Vietnamization
and Redeployment, 1970-1971No other book is as detailed or
enlightening on the question of the evolution of Marine Corps
professionalism. . . .Includes some fascinating descriptions of
Marine Corps life.--Carol Reardon, author of Soldiers and
Scholars: The U.S. Army and the Uses of Military History,
1865-1920
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