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Originally Posted by ZodWallop
Darryl, overall I agree with your views. But Steve did have a point about decreasing advances negatively impacting the quality of non-fiction. I think he made a mistake taking it to politics. There are non-fiction books that have had an impact. Silent Spring for instance.
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Alas, it turned out that Silent Spring was fiction rather than non fiction, at least from the standpoint of the scientific evidence of the effect of DDT on bird eggs. Advocacy books can have a lot of impact. But the trick is to remember that they are advocacy books. Powerful stories tend to be one sided.