![]() ![]() As a result of Gene’s isolating his family and denying them medical assistance in emergencies or education in anything other than the Bible and the ways of life on the harsh mountain, the Westover family suffered many terrible and debilitating accidents. Adopting a self-sufficient, survivalist lifestyle, Gene put his children to work at a young age in his scrap yard and hoarded supplies for the “Days of Abomination,” which he always believed were just around the corner. government was poisoning and corrupting its citizens through Godless education, Satanic medical practices, and surveillance methods designed to strip every citizen of their freedom. ![]() ![]() Growing up at the foot of a mountain called Buck’s Peak in a rural Idaho county, Tara’s life was ruled by her domineering father, Gene-a charismatic but paranoid and delusional man who believed that the U.S. Tara Westover’s memoir, Educated, follows her journey from rural Idaho to the PhD program at Cambridge University as she struggles against her family’s devout, isolationist religious beliefs and fights for an education, learning along the way that to be educated is to learn much more about the world than what’s contained in books. ![]()
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