PositiveThe New York Review of BooksIn earnest and lucid support of a counterintuitive idea, Anders tells the stories of liberal arts majors who have managed to establish themselves in all kinds of careers... Though he isn’t writing from the perspective of someone out to save liberal education, he does seem worried about its future, and his book offers a way to stop or slow the trend of dwindling numbers of liberal arts majors ...In a time of anxiety about student debt and the future of the workplace, Anders’s stories of career success speak to visceral concern ... Anders focuses on utility for the individual — there’s a reason why his book’s title is addressed to 'you' and not 'we' — and in emphasizing private material gains his book is representative of its genre.
