Instruct: Classify the given review as either positive or negative.
Query: Excellent book; gains/suffers from the author's youth

Good book and well worth reading by anyone interesting in race and class in America. One point that the author didn't cover as well as he might was the amazing ability of America to swallow up anyone and anything and make it American with an "A". I have immigrant parents and my wife is from the old country - and I could no more go back there to live and fit in than I could breath water.