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Review title: read chapter 9, forget the rest
Product review: Not at all what was expected. Over half of this work is spent convincing the reader that for a community to successfully raise its children, it should have a youth charter. This could have been accomplished on the book jacket, as chances are Damon's audience here is already convinced of this from other reading, and looking for the _how_, not the _why_ of having a youth charter.Unfortunately, only a few thousand words enlighten the reader as to how to effect this change in his own community. The first few chapters, an overexaggerated collection of _fictional_ before and after vignettes, are presented with excruciating, nearly condescending simple-mindedness.The chapters of interest are toward the end, (past 9) advising community leaders how to improve their town. If only the whole work could do the same. This one's a library reader.
