All things being equal

Product description all things being equal is about a nave young man's first year at a large university. it is 1950 and he joins a social fraternity. he is green, seventeen, soon to be eighteen, and must register for the draft. he is impatiently waiting to be twenty-one, more to legally drink than to vote. it is a year of pressures. he wants to succeed in college and be part of a group, but has doubts about succumbing to the whims of that group. he must deal with the threat of the korean war, and the loss of friends to that war. he doesn't want to die in a war. he faces a difficult situation involving an aggressive girl and her ex-boyfriend who is the director of hell week. about the author jim monteleone was a child of the depression. he grew up east of the tracks in a south cook county town. most of the inhabitants of his neighborhood were poor italian immigrants and blacks. he dreamed of going to college. it was a ridiculous dream, but somehow it came true. that dream extended to medical school and he eventually was on the faculty of a large medical school. his specialty was pediatrics and adolescent medicine. he has written a number of professional articles and books. this is his first novel.