The author was born in Los Angeles, California in 1945, and grew up the South Bay area; the heartland of the Defense/Aircraft Industry; in which he worked as a computer operator for a number of yea...mehr sehenThe author was born in Los Angeles, California in 1945, and grew up the South Bay area; the heartland of the Defense/Aircraft Industry; in which he worked as a computer operator for a number of years in the late 1960s and early 1970s. He considers himself to be a member of the working class; the proletariat, not the middle class. After working full-time and attending college part-time, the author received his Bachelor of Arts degree in History (with a minor in Philosophy) from California State University - Dominguez Hills in 1979. He is fond of saying his college major was the theory and practice of revolution. In his youth, the attended fundamentalist-evangelical churches with his parents - who were FDR New Deal Democrats to the core, and as liberal as you could be - he is now an active Episcopalian. Reflecting on things she said to him, the author suspects that the Great Depression gave his mother's political views a pinkish hue, which she passed on to him.weniger sehen