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Historian Michael Genovese bemoans the lack of strong leaders … sociologist David Grusky says America is not as upwardly mobile as we think … and Bill Press interviews Steny Hoyer, the assistant Democratic leader in the House.   Following the Republican debates, we hear from a prominent presidential historian who says we are in an era of leadership by intellectual and moral dwarfs. A Stanford sociologist reveals that half of a child’s future economic success depends on where the stork drops her. And House Democratic whip Steny Hoyer tells Bill Press about the outlook for another government shutdown.   Michael Genovese Professor Michael Genovese is a prominent presidential scholar, and he says President Obama’s recent use of executive power is a result, in part, of a weak Congress better suited to the 18th Century than to the 21st. http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/ils/about/   David Grusky America has always prided itself on social mobility, but a new book by sociologist David Grusky says we are less upwardly mobil