http://www.christianitytoday.com/bc/2008/002/1.32.html
He mentions a few things that do seem patently obvious to me, that Frank as the family runt was, even by his own account, able to manipulate or outmaneuver his parents so as to get what he wanted. That Frank can lament that he was subject to neglect or abuse as a child can still mesh easily with Guinness' account of Frank the spoiled little hellion. After all, the capacity for distortion is equally possible from either side. It's not as though Schaeffer's book doesn't display a bit of self pity, or a lot, actually. When Frank writes that there's a particular power a son can wield over a father he seems a little too proud of it and how he used it even as he seems to set the tone through the book of somehow regretting turning his dad toward the Dark Side of Republicanism and politics. Apparently saying you're sorry for being a highly politicized right-wing asshole who used your dad's reputation to get what you thought you wanted isn't simple enough. Not that I don't think there's NO value in the book but at some level what Frank could have been clearer about was what he doesn't say so far, about 66% of the way through his book.
Since there's a scheduled Blooger outage at 6pm PST I will just choose to blog about this more later.
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