[jetpilot]

Read this book when it first came out and enjoyed it (mostly for the awesome vulgar grandmother lol) but I have kind of have a different view than most. Most of my respect is for the grandparents rather than the kid. He grew up in a family that wasn't the Cunninghams or the Cleavers and he still managed to graduate from college. Millions of people have done this under his conditions and much worse. Millions have done quite well also without ever having graduated from college, again with similar conditions as his and worse. So his situation is not at all unique. What I find more interesting is how the Ivy League liberals turned his mind to liberal mush. His "uneducated" grandmother for sure and probably his grandfather would have thought his classmates and professors were idiots.