My father had not even completed high school when he started as an office boy working for the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, and I am not sure that my mother completed high school.
When it came time to go to college, I had been accepted for Harvard when my father was offered the position of head of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company office on the west coast, and we moved to San Francisco.
I would be remiss if I left the impression that my life has been totally preoccupied with scholarly research.
Our family life was certainly not intellectual.
While I was there my life was completely changed by becoming a convinced Marxist and engaging in a variety of student liberal activities.