This book is an interesting look at the community of Park Forest in the 1950s. I used to teach about this book as a social psychology professor. I also lived as a child in Park Forest and have very good memories of this community. I like the book because it provokes thought. I never felt that the upwardly mobile people in the community were as conformist as suggested by the author -- but it is good to realistically look back at these times and consider where we are today in the current times of division. The 1950s were not as perfect as thought by some, but there was a strong sense of family and community reflected in the people of Park Forest, which was a great strength of the times. Our court had people from diverse backgrounds, doing unique things. We had a family of artists, a multigenerational family from Hungary, a father who worked as an editor and writer for an agricultural magazine, an airline pilot, business managers, the scientist who discovered how lighting bugs glow, and a family that immigrated from Japan. Regardless of background or political beliefs, families in the courts grew close and helped one another through good times and hard times.