American culture: "There is much that is persuasive in this argument, but it is incomplete." The review pointed out factual errors in Judge's writing, such as that dancing in public was curtailed after a U.S. tax on nightclubs in 1944. The Wall Street Journal pointed out that Judge's view of swing dancing as a way to improve civil discourse in American culture, led him to falsely conflate early swing dancing with a completely different later period of swing dancing culture. The Washington Post recommended the book, and classed it among others on the topic including Dance of Days, Our Band Could Be Your Life, and D.C. Hand Dance. Jesse Walker wrote a book review of If It Ain't Got That Swing, in an article for Reason. Walker wrote that Judge, "gets the genealogy of neo-swing wrong, and that he does so precisely because he's trying to reduce a complex phenomenon to a simple explanation." Walker criticized Judge's "distorted chronology" about the evolution of the swing revival, citing factual inaccuracies in the presentation of swing dance history in the book. He said that the swing revival "obviously predated" the Gap Inc. commercial. He argued that Judge wrote from a stance of narcissism. The Reason book review concluded, "His new book's subtitle may invoke 'grown-up culture,' but his prose betrays him: He writes like he's going through a stage." References Further reading 2000 non-fiction books American memoirs American non-fiction books Books by Mark Judge (writer) Swing music