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Conroy, Pat The Lords of Discipline Boston Houghton Mifflin Company 1980 3rd printing Near Fine in Very Good+ dj Illustrated by (dj design) Wendell Minor (price-clipped) [clean attractive copy, very light shelfwear, a couple of slightly bent top page corners; jacket a little browned at spine, minor soiling to rear panel]. Novel set at a military school in Charleston, South Carolina, where harsh discipline, racism and sexism are the order of the day. (It's the Citadel, of course -- which the author himself had attended in the late 1960s -- but here fictionalized as the "Carolina Military Institute.") The basis for a reasonably good movie, released in 1983. Price: 30.00 USD