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Michael Aaron Rockland is a writer and Professor of American Studies at Rutgers University.

Despite the variety of his books and articles, the recurring interests in his writing—whether scholarship, memoir, journalism or fiction—are New Jersey culture and America on the international stage.

Life and career

Born in New York City, Rockland attended Hunter College.

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Upon graduation, he was drafted into the U.S. Navy and served two years in Yokosuka, Japan as a medic working in a locked psychiatric ward for American military personnel. This experience gave rise to his memoir, Navy Crazy.^[1]

Honorably discharged in 1957, he began work on his Masters and Ph.D.

in American Studies at the University of Minnesota. He was then attracted to government by John F. Kennedy.^[2] E