November 6, 2021

In every graduating class someone has to finish last. At West Point Military Academy that person has long been known as “the Goat..” In our own version of “Where Are They Now?” we interviewed James S. Robbins, author of “Last in Their Class: Custer, Pickett and the Goats of West Point” (Encounter Books) about the implications of being ranked dead last at West Point. The irony? Some of the Academy’s least distinguished cadets developed into the most famous and remarkable figures in American military history.

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