Volume 29, Number 15 · October 7, 1982
Sentimental Education
By Lester C. Thurow
The Education of David Stockman and Other Americans
by William Greider
Dutton, 159 pp., $9.25; $5.95 (paper)
William Greider starts his book by echoing Stockman's surprise that their famous Atlantic article—reprinted here in full, and taking nearly one half the book—caused the furor it did. After all Stockman was not saying anything that was not common knowledge around Washington—or anything about Reaganomics that had not been said by others. Nearly a year later what he was saying clearly became true. The deficits have been getting bigger and bigger and bigger.
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