Briefly, there are grounds for praise and for disagreement or argument. There is much evidence of excellent workmanship and of respect for the minutiae of science. There are internal signs that they have had more wide-ranging and skillful statistical advice for this volume. Any statistician will say that for these problems the Indiana group needed the help of the best statisticians in the world. Finally, in some instances, assertions do not stay within the data.
Presentation is clear enough for the most part, albeit a little turgid and needlessly repetitious.
The general tone is more confident, less defensive, more relaxed than in the first volume. In places this leads to essentially undisguised preaching. This is not only a book about Americans. Nevertheless this book is science, serious science, and science in the grand style. I defy trivial readers to be amused by it or diverted more than a very little here and there.