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That's impossible

and countless promises to do otherwise

Spy romances of Cold War counter-espionage evoke scenes of heroic FBI and CIA agents dedicated to smashing Communism and its subversive coterie of intellectual fellow travelers bent on painting the world red

he finds himself in need of a fresh idea

it can be a huge shock

The Averaged American GAMES That's impossibleAmericans today "know" that a majority of the population supports the death penalty, that half of all marriages end in divorce, and that four out of five prefer a particular brand of toothpaste. Through statistics like these, we feel that we understand our fellow citizens. But remarkably, such data now woven into our social fabric became common currency only in the last century. Sarah Igo tells the story, for the first time, of how opinion polls, man