Review of The Intelligence Men: Makers of the IQ Controversy

As the title of Raymond E. Fancher’s book The Intelligence Men: Makers of the IQ Controversy suggests, people make issues, not events. Fancher provides us with a history of what has come to be called the “IQ controversy” with biographical portraits of 13 of the central figures. The contributions and polemics of men from nineteenth century giants John Stuart Mill and Francis Galton to their contemporary counterparts Leon Kamin and Arthur Jensen, are chronicled.