In Glory's Shadow. Shannon Faulkner, The Citadel, And A Changing America

Cover Type: Hardcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: Fine
Publisher: Alfred A Knopf
Publisher Place: New York
Publisher Year: 2000
Edition: First Edition

Description: 330 pages. Book and Jacket appear to have hardly been read and are both in Fine condition throughout.

Publishers Description: About half of Catherine S. Manegolds story in In Glorys Shadow deals with Shannon Faulkners hard-fought legal battle to attend the Citadel, an all-male military academy in South Carolina that bills itself as the "Souths West Point." (It is, most famously, the basis for the setting of Pat Conroys bestselling novel The Lords of Discipline.) The other half, the "backstory" if you will, is a portrait of the Old South and old Southern masculinity, two venerated icons the Citadel has struggled to keep alive within its fortress-like walls. The Citadel was founded in the 1820s as a private training ground for an army intended to protect rich white landowners against insurrection by black slaves. The original recruits were mostly poor white men with no other chance to improve their class status. It became a school after the Civil War and settled into its role as a military college in the 20th century. The desire to ensure a successful future continues to draw students: Faulkner herself says she wanted to enroll for the discipline the academy provides, as well as the "brotherhood" she sees as a path to security. But what Manegold uncovers is less a family than a dysfunctional army, with a student-led tradition of physical and psychological abuse that seems to be supported by adult authority. (As one regimental commanders blackboard reads, "We are not hurting boys, we are disciplining men.") In Glorys Shadow is both a fascinating study of a changing South and a gripping account of an important legal battle. --Maria Dolan

ISBN: 9780679446354