![]() ![]() ![]() He is an outsider, a young man wounded by his relationship with his father, and something of a rebel. Will McLean does not belong to the social circle of young men who usually attend the Carolina Military Institute. The burden of tradition and mystique in an old Southern military school are unmistakable, but it is a world Conroy has come to understand, and serves as a fascinating setting for his story. Years before it became a center of controversy for its traditional exclusion of women, South Carolina's venerable military academy The Citadel inspired novelist Pat Conroy (who is one of its graduates) to craft a powerful and vivid story he called "The Lords of Discipline." The novel takes place at the fictional Carolina Military Institute, and the author specifically notes that he based his story in details drawn from the experiences of cadets at many other such schools. ![]()
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