It’s impossible to deny the influence this book had in its day. It’s referenced by numerous writers who became famous later on as one of those books that helped to open their eyes. It still does have a lot of good and important ideas, and like many other important ideas, those inspired by the book took the ideas to places that elevated them. The book is a kind of polemic against the uselessness of modern life to the youth of America circa 1958 or so. […]