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Originally posted by bilmore
That'd be dumb. You already know it's wrong.
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Apparently, it's permissible to say that a book is spot-on based on a summary, but not to say the opposite based on a summary, even if the summary is written by the author.
I have little patience for social science studies of this sort, that attempt to attribute broad and complicated social phenomena to individual causes. I would be similarly unlikely to read a book that explained why racism was
the cause of the difference between white and black economic status in the US.
Unlike you, I do not have the ability to read every book published in the United States, and thus periodically have to make these judgment calls. If I can see what the author himself says about his thesis, that seems to me to be a good basis for such a judgment call. Sorry, but I can only aspire to your level of knowledge and your reading speed.
