From Dwight Garner, writing for the New York Times:
The admissions process, as Andrew Ferguson puts it in his new book, Crazy U, entangles not just our pocketbooks but everything else that, besides world peace and cocktail hour, matters to parents: our vanities, our social ambitions and class insecurities, and most profoundly our love and hopes for our children.
Mr. Ferguson is a senior editor at The Weekly Standard, a conservative magazine, and he’s a valiant guide through this emotional territory. He’s got a big, beating heart, but he tucks it behind a dry prose style that owes a little bit to Mark Twain and Tom Wolfe ” to name the first two white-suited writers who come to mind ” and also to Dave Barry (who I suspect wears Dockers).
