Raised by survivalist parents in the Idaho mountains with no birth certificate and no schooling, Westover teaches herself enough to escape to college, and finds that education costs her the only family she's ever known.
Books mentioned in Educated (3)
Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw: “"How marvelous," he said, smiling. "It's as if I've stepped into Shaw's Pygmalion."”
The Subjection of Women by John Stuart Mill: “weaving the strands I'd found in Hume's Principles of Morals with filaments from Mill's The Subjection of Women.”
The Federalist by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay: “I wrote an essay comparing Edmund Burke with Publius, the persona under which James Madison, Alexander Hamilton and John Jay had written The Federalist Papers.”