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Book Review

The Sixteen-Trillion-Dollar Mistake: How the U.S. Bungled Its National Priorities from the New Deal to the Present. By Bruce S. Jansson. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2001. xiv, 492 pp. $27.50, ISBN 0-231-11432-X.)

Seldom has a book been more poorly served by what was presumably a marketing strategy. This study—and condemnation—of federal budgetary policies since the New Deal provides what the author himself uncharitably characterizes as a "blow-by-blow description of priorities of presidents and Congresses from FDR to Clinton." This, to appropriate Mark Twain's characterization of Richard Wagner's music, is better than it sounds. . . .

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