A review by apatrick
The Economists' Hour: False Prophets, Free Markets, and the Fracture of Society by Binyamin Appelbaum

2.0

Nooooooo, you guys, I had to give up! I checked this sucker out and renewed it three times and I still couldn't finish! Listen, the content is really interesting, if you like U.S. history, particularly 20th century. But oh. em. gee. There IS a way to write an academic book without including an endnote for every sentence, my friends. It can be done, I promise. Frankly, I consider it lazy to include interesting information in endnotes. Work that material into the text! Leave your endnotes for citations! If your editor can't help you do it, get a better editor. Or work with a ghostwriter, for the love of all that is holy. It's like Binyamin Appelbaum and Nate Silver have their own little club of how-to-make-inaccessible-subjects-even-more-inaccessible-so-you-can-feel-more-like-a-bigshot.

Eeesh.