Well. It's been a bit of a disappointment, so far. Her early life was one of privilege in highly segregated Houston. Her days were filled with the typically insipid activities of the rich: yachting, country clubs, parties, excessive drinking & smoking. The requisite trips abroad. The hob-nobbing with society's high rollers and wheeler-dealers. All of the trappings of oil-soaked wealth. She did read a lot. I'll give her that.
She was a bit of a rebel during these early years, but it seemed to be for the purpose of being deliberately ornery, to get her dad's goat, more than from a deep abiding sense of injustice. I'm only on page 89 and hopefully she will see the light soon.
Molly was enrolled in Columbia University in the '60's and I wondered if she knew James Simon Kunen, who around the same time wrote the fabulous "The Strawberry Statement" about Columbia student war protests (and later wrote "Standard Operating Procedure" about the My Lai massacre). Even I, as a young teen, was moved by the anti-war culture. It seems that if she was authentically driven by anti-war sentiment, these two would have sought each other out. There was no mention of him in this biography, but I wonder if their paths crossed?
And that, of course, brings the question: Where is the outrage of today? Why aren't students protesting on campuses, occupying buildings, blocking traffic? We have no fewer causes to protest these days, and even though the draft is not one of them, where is everyone?
