Of Course I'm for Monogamy: I'm Also for Everlasting Peace and an End to Taxes

by Marilyn vos Savant

Like a triumphant soldier emerging from the battlefield bloody but unbowed, Marilyn vos Savant comes up for a gasp of celebratory air after ten years in the "Ask Marilyn" trenches. And what a decade it's been! Now, after 423,604 letters, 520 columns, and 148 marriage proposals, vos Savant shares with us the best of, the worst of, the most challenging of, and the funniest of what Americans love to read every Sunday morning over blueberry pancakes and hazelnut coffee, with loads of new questions and answers to boot.
Covering everything from government to games, mysticism to math, and logic to lotteries, Marilyn vos Savant tackles it all with her characteristic grace and insight.
Of Course I'm for Monogamy is a ten-year celebration of what Marilyn does better than anyone else, and in delivering to her legions of fans what they should know if they consider themselves educated or even brilliant, vos Savant has indeed become a venerable American institution - a writer who has opened the American mind, made the road more traveled, cajoled folks through the power of logical thinking, and won armies of fans while influencing not a small number of people.

Hardcover

First published September 1, 1996

About the author

Marilyn vos Savant is an American magazine columnist, author, lecturer and playwright who rose to fame through her listing in the Guinness Book of World Records under "Highest IQ". Since 1986 she has written Ask Marilyn, a Sunday column in Parade magazine in which she solves puzzles and answers questions from readers on a variety of subjects.

Reviews

[Harvey]

- This husband and wife team (a Zoologist and a Psychiatrist) present copious research proving that infidelity is instinctive. Recent advances in genetics have shattered long-held assumptions regarding species considered monogamous (geese, wolves, cheetahs, etc). While the science presented is somewhat interesting, the issues of human societal construct (social stability) were not explored as well as could be. I am entertained by Freud's suggestion that civilization is built on the repression of mankind's instincts, and furthermore, I subscribe fully to the theory that, to a large extent, overcoming our natural instincts is THE defining characteristic of what makes us human.
- I liked the term E.P.C. (extra-pair copulation), that is used to describe the 'affairs' of the animal kingdom.

[Janet]

3+ stars

[Jennifer]

Ok, I admit to skipping most of the math and logic chapters.