Abstract
TM¥ he college textbook is the crutch of Ameri' can higher education; it has almost destroyed true learning/' * Textbooks are great for a few authors and their publishers ; they make both rich. Textbooks, if not monopolistic, are oligopolistic and control the content of college courses. How often are such complaints heard in the halls of academe? Yet, one wonders whether such attacks on the college text are not still another mindless sally at another American institution. Let us first define the target, and then the attack. We are not talking about reference or scholarly titles, but strictly about textbooks, as purely an American invention as baseball and the commun-
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