The Lords of Discipline

The Lords of Discipline (published 1980) is a novel by Pat Conroy. The narrator, Will McLean, attends the fictional Carolina Military Institute in Charleston, South Carolina, from 1963 to 1967. As a Georgian, Irish, and not rich, he is an outsider and finds life as a "knob" or "plebe" (a first-year cadet in training) at the Institute to be physically and emotionally brutal. But he finds solace in three boys who become his

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