Mungers Husband was a lawyer and her father is now worth almost 1.
Lemann presents with great clarity the facts behind a major factor, used by elite universities, of sifting admission candidates.
It's unadulterated and uncensored, and the language is almost comically coarse.
But it is also peopled with compelling characters whose stories range over decades, from Cambridge to California and parts in I've read lots of books on education and its role in society, but this was one of the best.
Documentaries typically have a central story that they follow and that story is always resolved at the end.
There are some good things about this book on meritocracy in American education.