 Al Gore's work has positively shaped the amazing new books that poured out in the 2000s by wonderful scholars like Patricia Brady, Joseph Ellis, Amy Greenberg, Robert Watson, Catherine Clinton, Catherine Sibley, Christy Miller, Lewis Gould, Nancy Beck Young, Barbara Perry, Myra Gutten, Maureen Beasley, Molly Wertheimer, among others. That was some decade of scholarship.