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Wow! It's amazing - lots of people have read it - Pukin even knows the author. We can learn so much from immigrants. Did you hear Arnold Schwarzeneger (sp? - he's my governator, but i don't know how to spell his name!) at the Republican Convention? He was awesome. He talked about how he came over here from a socialist country. Didn't know anything about Republicans or Democrats, but he heard Nixon on t.v. (guess it was an election year) and asked a friend, "What is he?" "A Republican," his friend said, "Well," said Arnold, "then I am a Republican." He said when he heard the Democratic Nominee speak - it sounded just like the leaders in his socialistic country - Austria. Said he grew up with continual fear of the secret police taking his family away. It was powerful! Made you feel so proud to be an American!

I was 20 years old when I read it. I come from a family of die hard democrats. I remember my dads disgust at Reagan being elected Governor in 1966. Needless to say I absorbed a lot of that contempt of conservatism.
At the time I read the book I had a lot of questions on the "fairness" of capitalism. That book opened up my eyes on the results of socialism and marxism. That, and my husband is a "gun nut" who rivals Bert Gummer.