Indeed, Daniel Aaron entitled his influential study of American writers during these years "The Unwritten War," and Edmund Wilson opened his "Patriotic Gore" with the comment that "The period of the American Civil War was not one in which belles-lettres flourished".
In 2002, in an influential book entitled The Threatening Storm, he argued the strategic and moral case for removing Saddam Hussein.
In 2007 he wrote a highly influential article entitled: How and why Ukip can attract the Old Labour vote.
An influential article entitled "Efficient Capital Markets", published in the Journal of Finance in 1970, laid out a research programme for asset-price analysis.
A small, influential pamphlet entitled Compassionate Conservatism, written by Jesse Norman and Janan Ganesh, tried to give the movement a philosophical base through the idea of a connected society.
In 1971, the art critic Linda Nochlin wrote an influential essay entitled Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists? "Its main thesis," says Nochlin, "was an attack on the idea that genius is innate, something you are born with.
Way back in the 1950s, Tony Crosland wrote an influential book entitled The Future of Socialism and phrases such as "democratic socialism" became widely used, and the "mixed economy" became all the rage.
In February, 1940, he published an influential pamphlet entitled ''How to Pay for the War,'' and in August of that year he took an office in Whitehall, from which he started dabbling in all elements of economic policy.
In an influential essay entitled "How Not to Cheat Children: The Theory of Loose Parts," Nicholson wrote, "In any environment, both the degree of inventiveness and creativity, and the possibility of discovery, are directly proportional to the number and kind of variables in it".
As for teleology, Boyle wrote an influential treatise entitled A Disquisition about the Final Causes of Natural Things which appeared in 1686.
