TY - BOOK AU - LIPSKY David TI - Absolutely American: four years at West Point SN - 061809542X (hbk.): PY - 2003/// CY - New York PB - Houghton Mifflin KW - OFFICER TRAINING KW - UNITED STATES KW - WEST POINT N2 - Rolling Stone magazine reporter David Lipsky followed a batch of cadets through their four year programme at the United States Military Academy at West Point. He was given carte blanche to go anywhere and talk to anyone; nobody and nothing was to be off limits. The book describes what he found, and presents what the process is like, mainly from the cadets' perspective ER -