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Really? From what I've read of Greene's books (while I was stayed in "User:"Cosmos's room in NYC...), his general format seems to be:
1) Give gripping narrative of historical event.
2) Shoehorn the event to use as validation for some vaguely-specified "law" ("Don't be afraid", "act covertly", etc.)
EDIT: And that can probably be expanded to:
3) When you have enough of these, combine them into a book.
4) In response to popularity, generate new books, scraping bottom of barrel as necessary.
Dorikka already mentioned reading through Robin Hanson's posts on status. In terms of 'Shoehorning', if he can stomach Hanson I expect him to consider Greene altogether benign.