"My parents were determined to move into the middle class."

Class, Middle class, Parents

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"My parents were determined to move into the middle class."

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"Naturally, I have compensated in my adult years by owning very large numbers of books."

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"About 1900 my parents came to the United States as children from what was then the Polish area of Russia."

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"Going to school and working for good marks, indeed working for very good marks, was a serious business."

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