{"product_id":"making-the-corps","title":"Making the Corps","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eMaking the Corps\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eThomas E Ricks\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9780684831091\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eScribner\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e1997\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003eHardcover\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eExcellent, unmarked copy with little wear and tight binding. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003eIn the tradition of A Long Gray Line and Friday Night Lights, Making the Corps chronicles the powerful forces that transform a group of raw recruits from wildly different backgrounds into a single unit of fiercely proud Marines.\u003cp\u003eBoot camp, says one Parris Island drill instructor, is a kind of war. The enemy: selfish, un-Marine-like values that Marine recruits bring with them. In Making the Corps, Thomas E. Ricks takes us to the front lines of that war. Following a single platoon of new arrivals from their arrival on Parris Island through their first full year as members of the Corps, Ricks guides us on an eye-level tour of America's most hallowed rite of passage. From the white supremacist from Alabama to the black Muslim from Washington, D.C., to the tough Irish-Catholic kid from Boston, every man faces tests of courage, confidence, discipline, and endurance -- tests that strip away his past and stamp him forever as a United States Marine.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWritten with driving force, full of richly drawn characters, and thick with insights into race, class, and the military's relationship with the larger culture, Making the Corps is a triumph, a journey through the heart of an American myth that will be a classic of its kind.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Scribner","offers":[{"title":"Making the Corps | Thomas E Ricks | Hardcover | 9780684831091 | Used: Like New | Military History 1683246","offer_id":50801814372610,"sku":"1683246","price":26.72,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0609\/3327\/5906\/files\/91gSQk783jL.jpg?v=1792411858","url":"https:\/\/boswellsbooks.com\/products\/making-the-corps","provider":"Boswell's Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}