CHAPTER 11: PROGRESS IS OUR MOST

IMPORTANT PRODUCT

1 Senator Albert J. Beveridge, speech in the U.S. Senate, January 9, 1900,
Congressional Record, 56th Congress 33 (Washington, D.C.: U.S.
Government Printing Office, 1900).

2 Frances FitzGerald, Fire in the Lake (Boston: Atlantic-Little, Brown, 1972),
8.

3 E. J. Mishan, The Economic Growth Debate (London: George Allen and
Unwin, 1977), 12.

4 Vine Deloria Jr., God Is Red (New York: Dell, 1983 [1973]), 290.

5 Two new textbooks, Pathways to the Present and Boorstin and Kelley, end
not with a bang but a whimper—the same whimper:

In May 2003, Bush signed another tax cut into law, this one for $350

billion. The President insisted that this “bold package of tax relief ”

would add a million jobs in the first year and boost the stock market.

Critics charged that the tax cuts would create huge budget deficits far

into the future.

—Pathways

However, in May 2003 Bush signed another tax cut into law, this one

for $350 billion. The President insisted that the bold package of tax

relief would add jobs and boost the stock market. Critics charged

that the tax cuts might create huge deficits for many years into the

future.

—Boorstin and Kelley

Chapter 12 explains how neither of these passages was written by the listed
authors, but by a clerk or freelancer hired by the publisher. Apparently this
person, entrusted with ending both books, was not paid enough to produce a