[beckett]

I wasn't forced to read it --- IOW it wasn't part of any curriculum --- but as a teen I read The Greening of America, and entered for a time into the looking glass world of Charles Reich. Also, I look back on Future Shock as a particularly bad piece of business, a totalist vision composed of lots of silly guesses and fantasy.

[Pelham]

Funny that you should mention Future Shock. That book and its authors, the Tofflers, were great favorites of Newt Gingrich. Which isn't all that surprising to those who had doubts about him.