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Writing A Memoir Has A Particularly Excited Sense Of Narcissism.

I Dropped Out In '64. And I Came Back To Michigan, In '65. In 1965, When I Came Back I Had Never Heard Of Vietnam.

What Were The Politics Of My Family? They Were Mainstream Moderate Politics.

What Was On The Agenda Was School And Social Life And Those Kinds Of Things. So I Was The Middle Of Five Kids. So I Had The Great Advantage Of Being Able To Play Up To The Older Kids And Play Down To The Younger Kids And I Think That's Part Of What Propelled Me To Become A Teacher At Some Point In My Life. But It Was A Comfortable Childhood. It Was A Privileged Childhood.

One Question Is: Who Is The Working Class Today, And How Has It Changed? Where Are We In That? I Don't Have A Knee-jerk Kind Of 1930s Thing About We Must Build The Unions And That's The Way To The Future. I'm Writing This Book Right Now Called Pallin' Around, And The Subtitle Is: "talking To The Tea Party." And Frankly I Find Talking To The Tea Party Exhilarating, I Love It.