Jeff Yoak's Reviews > Farnham's Freehold

Even having read this book before several times, it still blew my socks off. Heinlein's deep look at racism, his typically brilliant characters and one of the cases where he didn't lose interest in his plot all dovetail in a great book.

2016: Probably this is one of the books that stimulated the best conversations with kids when we read it. They really latched on to the ideas of racism and slavery as seen in the book. It was so brilliant of Heinlein not only to have blacks lording over whites in his alternate world, but to have them be kind, gentle and generous. It is easy to hate whip-cracking, evil overlords, but the message is so much more profound watching the distinction between our protagonists who accept and come to like their new benevolent masters, and our heroes who struggle against it, despite their special treatment, fighting to be free at any cost.

Read this one with your kids!