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This was to be a Byproduct Nation, made much less by people hoping to glorify the land of their grandparents than by people working to provide a decent, prosperous life for their grandchildren. European nationalism hallowed the past; this new American nationalism hallowed the future. The very same features that had made the Revolutionary generation wonder whether there could ever be one nation across the continent-the vastness of the land, the diversity of landscapes and climates, the conglomeration of peoples, the mixture of skills and traditions, the variety of religion-finally proved to be the nation's peculiar...
...grandchildren of men who had fought each other on the battlefields of Europe now became good neighbors. Of course, this demanded a new kind of patriotism. Older settlers, who imagined that newcomers could become more "American" by becoming more like themselves, were all wrong. America was always being redefined by the arriving millions, by the common quest for a new kind of nation...
Frustrated by "victory" in two world wars (and troubled by doubts about the war in Viet Nam), surfeited by an American standard of living, many Americans, then, were tempted to become refugees from the American quest. Some felt that the decent, prosperous life the earlier Americans wanted for their grandchildren had not been achieved by them. But belligerent campaigns for ethnic and racial pride fragmented the nation with new chauvinisms. The fertile pleasures of an immigrant nation were displaced by cold-blooded quotas - unashamed power struggles of Americans against themselves. The struggle for minority rights became a demand for minority...
...wealthy taxpayers count only half their capital gains in calculating their taxable income; Okun would reduce or even eliminate that discount. He also favors tightening up on federal estate taxes, especially to wipe out "the generation-skipping trust, by which Great Grandpa can provide abundantly for his children and grandchildren while ensuring that the estate will elude taxation during their generations...
...proud 81-year-old Tugend knew what was happening to him. One day he took out his false teeth and refused to eat any more. He had decided to die, and no one-not his doctor, not his family-could do anything to change that. His children and grandchildren cared for him with anguished tenderness until death claimed him three weeks later...