Title: This is a very dangerous book.
Product review: In The Wonder of Boys, Gurian begins with biological "facts" and launches off into agenda-driven, obervation-based opinion. His mix of observation and facts in the first few chapters especially is very effective for convincing readers of his perspective; most readers will not read critically enough, nor be informed enough, to notice when he makes gross assumptions about brain development, for instance, or posits a common boy behavior as biologically based when socialization plays, I and many others would argue, the definitive role. He refers to cultural and anthropological "trends" only when they serve his argument, not citing cultures where those same "boy" traits are manifested very differently than in our culture.
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