It's a title that has cropped up in a couple of threads. Virtually everyone who has read it agrees that it's an important book. Personally, I read it first as a teenager, and last re-read it about two years ago...which is to say, several decades after the first time.

It holds up well. I'm not sure society as a whole has left behind some of the stereotypes you mentioned. There are still pockets of the country that resemble the 1960's more than the 2000's, both for good and for ill.

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