The Golden Fleece

In The Golden Fleece, Tom Carhart describes how he and five of his classmates from the U.S. Military Academy stole the billy goat mascot from their rival, the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis, just before the biggest game of the year. The caper is interwoven with an insider's narrative about the private lives of six West Point cadets in the early 1960s, who, against all odds, hurled their last hurrah of triumph to America before flying off to fight the war in Vietnam.