One of Wall Street Journal's Best Ten Works of Nonfiction in 2012 New York Times Bestseller 'Not so different in spirit from the way public intellectuals like John Kenneth Galbraith once shaped discussions of economic policy and public figures like Walter Cronkite helped sway opinion on the Vietnam War…could turn out to be one of the more momentous books of the decade.' -New York Times Book Review 'Nate Silver's The Signal and the Noise is The Soul of a New Machine for the 21st century.'