The Big Myth: How American Business Taught Us to Loathe Government and Love the Free Market

by Naomi Oreskes

In 1953, Dwight Eisenhower, one of the few men in Washington (then or now) who had fought and won a war, reminded the American people that “This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.”