MixedThe Guardian\"I was gobsmacked by this account of that period by Alan Greenspan, former chair of the US Federal Reserve, and Adrian Wooldridge, the Economist’s political editor. Neither man would deign to descend to the deep stacks of the wonderful library on Capitol Hill to discover anything, or to read sources that might challenge their deeply entrenched ideological views ... The overall story is one of bewildering advance – the book rollicks along like a good Victorian adventure story – but only as long as those malevolent forces can be kept at bay ... What threatens American capitalism now is not regulation and entitlement – it is the decline of the Enlightenment spirit and the accompanying public realm under assault from intellectual hawkers and proselytisers of an ultra-libertarian barbarism. This book, for all its breathless enthusiasm for capitalism, has sadly helped their cause.\
