COLLEGE-BOY LIEUTENANT: Confronting the funny but quirky Lifestyle of the Army in the '50s

The ‘50s have been idealized in nostalgia for the naiveté of the populace and the birth of rock and roll music. But there were other factors at work that greatly affected the lives of the ‘50s generation. Factors such as the Korean “police action,” a military that had not yet fully accepted the idea that a soldier could be acquitted at a court-martial, and a society that wasn’t quite ready for religious and racial harmony.

COLLEGE-BOY LIEUTENANT is a story of a young man, STEVE STILLMAN, who...