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brionna12's review
4.0
This book has good ideas on ways to tackle social problems, but some of the chapters could have been a lot more focused.
kateraed's review
3.0
Interesting principles, but you have to dig for them because the author gets lost in the stories. Really needed an intro or conclusion chapter that only focuses on the principles (*maybe* with the context they apply to, though if in the conclusion, most of that work was done in storied chapters) without going into entire case studies, contexts, and political movements.
debnanceatreaderbuzz's review against another edition
3.0
I thought the title seemed a bit overreaching when I first read about this book, but I was hopeful. Wouldn’t it be lovely to discover that something as simple as peer pressure could actually transform the world?
Of course, as I had anticipated, the title was too good to be true. Rosenberg offers up story after story of ways that peer pressure is working to improve the world. Reducing rates of smoking. Cutting AIDS levels. Improving calculus scores in African-American men. Improving rates of infant mortality. All happy stories.
A good book, yes. A cure-all? No.
I suppose by now I should approach any book that offers quick fixes with skepticism instead of starry-eyed eagerness. As should we all. Still one can always dream….
Of course, as I had anticipated, the title was too good to be true. Rosenberg offers up story after story of ways that peer pressure is working to improve the world. Reducing rates of smoking. Cutting AIDS levels. Improving calculus scores in African-American men. Improving rates of infant mortality. All happy stories.
A good book, yes. A cure-all? No.
I suppose by now I should approach any book that offers quick fixes with skepticism instead of starry-eyed eagerness. As should we all. Still one can always dream….
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