Heinlein's values were bizarre even for the world into which he was born. Dude was younger than, for example, Frances Perkins.

Thomas M Disch's monstrously bitter book about American sf, The Dreams Our Stuff Is Made Of, has a whole chapter about Heinlein, much of it about Farnham's Freehold.

Heinlein really liked the idea of himself as a patriarch. I wonder if anyone's tried to write a seriously researched biography of him yet? (I wonder what it's like to work with the estate?)