Meritocracy A Love Story Author:Jeffrey Lewis "Meritocracy is a dramatic, riveting novel of our times."Elizabeth Hardwick — It is the end of the summer of 1966 and a small group of friends, recent Yale graduates, gather in a Maine summer cottage to say good-bye to one of their own, Harry Nolan, who is joining the Army. Harry and his bride Sascha represent to their friends... more » the apex of their generation. Sascha has men falling for her "up and down the eastern seaboard," and Harry, a rich and fearless Californian, son of a senator, has his friends convinced that he will one day be president. That is, until their love and Harry's ambition unleash a spiral of events that becomes as fateful for all the characters as it is emblematic of the times they grew up in. Meritocracy is the story of a generation when it was young, caught at the moment when history arrived to exact a tragic and inevitable price.« less