Jim Cullen's review on HNN

Jim Cullen, scholar of things democratic (including the Bruce), penned this review: History News Network. Nothing beats a review by someone who truly read and engaged the book--a critic who pulls out little details while showing the broad themes. It's a very good analysis that takes a quick jab at the project for its lack of coverage of globalization and world affairs (a totally fair critique). Anyone who
knows Capital Moves, of course, knows that I know that stuff.

He also calls me a "romantic," which precious few people do. I like that.

Cullen's critique about globalization (minor, really, in his overview) gives me a chance to get something off my chest. With Stayin' Alive I made a tactical decision not to pin my story on what has become the deus ex machina of historical change: globalization. I think that there was a chance, albeit limited as Cullen reminds us, to have a different kind of response to globalization in the seventies, and therefore, a different kind of globalization than we ended up with. I was really interested in the domestic story, which ultimately hampered a more cohesive response to the various global shocks of the decade.