"excusable" is a shallow reading of the book. It's far more interesting than that, and I would say much more interesting than say Mamet's https://en.wikipedia

"excusable" is a shallow reading of the book. It's far more interesting than that, and I would say much more interesting than say Mamet's https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oleanna_(play) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oleanna_(play) which dealt with a similar theme. Also written around the same time. Fictional but no doubt based on personal knowledge of similar incidents.