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Of Poe and Lee and other West Points.(military education of author Edgar Allan Poe and General Robert E. Lee)

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From: The American Enterprise
Date: 19990701
Author:Kauffman, Bill

There is a rich literary tradition at West Point. As alumnus and novelist Lucian Truscott IV says, "You just spend four years doing nothing but writing and figuring electrical engineering problems. The education at West Point is excellent for a writer--a hell of a lot better than the Iowa writers' school, where they sit around doing a lot of navel-gazing."

The academy's most famous dropout was a chronic class-cutter named Edgar Allan Poe, whose "wayward and capricious temper made him at times utterly oblivious or indifferent to the ordinary routine of roll-calls, drills, and ...

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