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Title: A Nobel Prize for Stupid?
Review: If there were, Fogel would have a chance to add a second Prize to his earlier one for Economics. Consider this book purporting to describe the wellsprings of social improvement in America, to the present -- and focusing on its popular, rhetorical wellsprings -- with one index entry for "Progressivism" and none beginning "Socialism, "Workers," or "Communism." In fact, according to Fogel social progress has come about due to technological change and church preachers responding to it. Mother Jones was just a mother (my characterization, Fogel's vacuity). That a Nobel Prize winner could publish such tripe I think has dumbfounded almost everyone, so little commented upon has this book been. But if you put stock in others' opinions and read history, take my word for it, this is an very poor amateur history by a non-historian with a Nobel Prize. If you don't, and have a brain in your head, buy it and weep.
