Title: Smoke and mirrors in the tradition of Orwellian propaganda.
Product review: Barlett and Steele offer the polar opposite of "feel good" economics. Citing opinion polls and twisting economics statistics beyond recognition, they offer unconvincing proof of America's decline. This despite the contrary nature of the reality of the 1980s. An statistics professor once told me "if you don't like what your data tells you, change the sample size". In that tradition, Barlett and Steele lump in two declining economic periods (1977-81 and 1990) with the rest of the 1980s (the Reagan Era) to try and make their case more convincing. Fortunately, we have data available to see for ourselves the true nature of the Reagan Era
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