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This is a book that will be painful for many people to read.
Not because it's bad _ it's very good _ but because it deals with one of the most sinister child-rearing sins of our times: parents who, in the name of doing what's best for their children, push them past the breaking point.
It can be gymnastics parents or showbiz parents or beauty-pageant parents or, as is the case in this book, getting-into-the-right-college parents.
They may be parents obsessed with climbing the social and economic ladder or parents already on the upper rungs who demand that their offspring maintain family traditions and standards.
They may be parents ...
Source: HighBeam Research, `All Loves Excelling,' by Josiah Bunting III; Bridge...