Talk:George Gilder/Archives/2018

Reagan's most quoted author - can anyone verify the cite?

I've been trying to track this claim down - it's universal in recent coverage of Gilder - and Larissa MacFarquhar's "The Gilder Effect" from 2000 appears to be the only source for this claim. All other cites for it that I could find are to this one article.

The reference is a dead link - but there appears to be a copy here, in The New Yorker, 29 May 2000 ... paywalled. The only text on the page relating to this is "It is no accident that Gilder—scourge of feminists, unrepentant supply-sider, and now, at sixty, a technology prophet—was the living author Reagan most often quoted." Is it substantiated any further in the article body? Can anyone get the article text and quote the part that makes this claim?

If that one passing sentence is literally the entire basis for this claim, then it may not be a solid claim - and definitely not one rating the article intro - David Gerard (talk) 19:34, 11 December 2018 (UTC)

Found the article - and yeah, that's literally the only mention of the claim.

I have also found it in Gilder's own publicity material: "According to a study of presidential speeches, Mr. Gilder was President Reagan's most frequently quoted living author." I can't find this study.

So - the claim appears not to be backed by the reference enough to be confident in it at all, let alone to intro level. As such, I've removed it, unless someone can turn up a solid cite - David Gerard (talk) 00:23, 13 December 2018 (UTC)