How to Survive in Your Native Land Author:James Herndon How to Survive in Your Native Land is unlike anything else you have ever read. Although its subject is education--and particularly the challenge of trying to break through to the core of what teaching is all ab out--this marvelous book has the pace, the power, the inventiveness and fascination of the richest sort of fiction...now thrusts us int... more »o the lives of white students in middle-class suburbia and gives us a record of growing up in America that bears comparison with Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn.« less