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Books in Brief.(Review)

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| February 19, 2001 | Rapp, Cristopher | COPYRIGHT 2001 National Review, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

It's Getting Better All the Time: 100 Greatest Trends of the Last 100 Years, by Stephen Moore and Julian L. Simon (Cato, 294 pp., $14.95)

This book gets its title from a Beatles tune and shares some of the Fab Four's cheery optimism. Famed free-marketeer Julian L. Simon (the book was begun before his death in February 1998) and his protege, NR contributing editor Stephen Moore, present a statistical state of the nation, quantifying the progress made in various areas of American life over the past 100 years. In easy-to-read charts and graphs, the book runs the gamut-from ...

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