Bullies and Cowards: The West Point Hazing Scandal, 1898-1901

by Philip W. Leon

When Oscar Booze entered West Point in 1898, the older cadets decided that he did not conform to their image of what a cadet should be. After four months of constant torment, including a beating in an organized boxing match, ridicule for reading his Bible, and the forced consumption of hot sauce in the cadet mess hall, he resigned. When Oscar died a year and a half later from tuberculosis of the larynx, his family claimed that the West Point cadets...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0313312222
• ISBN13: 9780313312229
• Release Date: December 1999
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 1.09 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 9.5"