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Sotomayor chapter departs from subject to attack how the New Left legal movement evolved and how a much dumber justice than Sotomayor, Earl Warren, indulged it.

She's harder on Paglia than is warranted. Certainly not the figure I'd pin the sexual excess of Boomers on.

Second bio chapter is on Aaron Sorkin - his misbegotten obsession with TV as a medium of education and persuasion.

The first bio sketch is of Steve Jobs. Andrews is more laudatory toward Jobs than one may expect, celebrating him for being a personal force in opposition to what she seems as more stereotypical boomer tendencies. She contrasts Jobs with his successor Tim Cook, to highlight these differences. Despite Jobs' positive qualities and accomplishments (building Apple), his impact was quickly degraded in his early death.

The book is organized like Eminent Victorians, which means it is comprised on biographical sketches meant to illustrate the spirit of the age (in this case a generation that dominated mid and late 20th century America and even early 21st century America. The tone is satirical and rollicking