Best Book I've Read Lately

This is the most though-provoking book I have read in the past few years. As the mother of two small children, I think continually about how to raise them to help them avoid the perils of post-industrial society. Is there anything I can do, as a parent, to help my children be nice people, succeed at their chosen pursuits, and avoid the mistakes of their ancestors? In a larger sense, is there hope for the future of America, or are we hopelessly sentenced to random school shootings, crazed terrorist bombings, and other brands of serial killings and crime?
Phillip Roth does not know the answer. (Oh, how I wish he did). Whether the problem is with the adulation of radical behavior (sometimes for its own sake) that emerged in the sixties, or from the shallowness of the behavior that the sixties radicals were reacting against--the blond football heroes and the beauty queens and their Peyton Place values--or from something else entirely is an open question. What Roth does is encourage us to break free from that dichotomy and move beyond it. Enough "Peyton Place". Enough "Imagine there's no heaven." Round and round it goes, where it stops nobody knows.
Let's look elsewhere for where the ills of society lie.