The Good Life: The Meaning of Success for the American Middle Class.

Washington Monthly | May 1, 1989| | Copyright

The Good Life: The Meaning of Success for the American Middle Class. Loren Baritz. Knopf, $19.95. Probably the best way to get to know a place quickly is to read the fiction that is set there. When my family moved to Westchester County, New York, a couple of years ago, I turned to the work of John Cheever, the "Chekhov of Westchester," for help in understanding our new home. Cheever's publicity during the last few years of his life (he died in 1982), in which he was always portrayed as a contented suburban squire, had given me the expectation that his work would be a ...

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