Michael Erin currently functions as chief of staff and director of operations for The Las Vegas Global Economic Alliance. Previously he served as practice manager for Webster Dental Care and spent more than a decade in the United States Army. Michael Erin enjoys a number of hobbies, including reading, especially the works of Pat Conroy. Known for his famous novels The Great Santini and The Prince of Tides, Pat Conroy was the first of seven children raised by a Marine officer and his Alabaman wife. The family moved often and Conroy attended the military college, The Citadel, in Charleston, South Carolina. Upon graduation Conroy returned to his former high school, Beaufort High School, to teach English and psychology before he left to teach underprivileged children in a one-home schoolhouse on an island off the coast of South Carolina. Because he refused to subject the children to corporal punishment, he was fired after a year and later wrote a book, The Water is Wide, about his experiences teaching. After his finished his teaching career, Pat Conroy moved to Atlanta, where he was able to write The Great Santini, which was published in 1976. Conroy later moved to Rome, where he wrote and published his most successful novel, The Prince of Tides, to great critical acclaim. He published 14 books in total before his death in 2016 from pancreatic cancer.
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A former captain in the U.S. Army, Michael Erin gravitates toward Pat Conroy’s coming-of-age novel The Lords of Discipline. The son of a military officer, Conroy wrote prolifically about his life experiences in military bases. The Lords of Discipline, for example, was inspired by his time as a student in the Citadel Military Academy in South Carolina. Michael Erin’s interest in the novel is not surprising given the story's rich themes and brutal honesty.
Published in 1980, the book chronicles the life of Will McLean, a cadet in the Carolina Military Institute. Will eventually questions the moral codes imposed upon him and his fellow cadets when he is tasked to keep a watchful eye on the first African American cadet that the institute has admitted. Rumors of a secret organization that aims to get rid of the said cadet stir Will into action. He rallies his comrades, and they start relying on their own moral compasses, searching for truth even if it they have to go against the establishment. |
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