CarolC, it would also be best to remember he wrote the book long before the primaries began, and some of what he was predicting has already been proven wrong.

But that's OK, isn't it? It doesn't mean he can't give us insights. Also, it will be a much more interesting read, in all likelihood, after the general. So that gives you plenty of time to read his other books first!

Start w/his National Book Critics award winner "Content of our Character". Working as I do, in the middle of the "black/white" racial divide in urban education, I thought he nailed it like nobody I've ever read, and the person whose opinions had come closest to my own prior to that time would probably be bell hooks.