Review of Mark Solovey and Hamilton Cravens, eds. Cold War Social Science:  Knowledge Production, Liberal Democracy, and Human Nature (New York:  Palgrave MacMillan, 2012). ISBN: 978-0-230-34050-3, ISBN10: 0-230-34050-4 Reviewed by Christopher Shannon Social Science as Soulcraft As an academic genre, the edited volume of essays has a storied past in U.S. intellectual history.  The essays in John Higham and Paul Conkin’s New Directions in American Intellectual History (1979) and Richard Fox and Jackson Lears’s The Culture of Consumption (1983) revolutionized the discipline and spawned hundreds of full-length studies.   Cold War Social Science:  Knowledge Production, Liberal Democracy, and Human Nature, edited Read more