“It can’t be said often enough,” historian Kenneth Whyte says infrequently in his new history of auto regulation, “that 40,000 or more people dying on American highways every year was a tragedy and a colossal waste of human potential.” This specific version of this declaration, saved for the epilogue of The Sack of Detroit: General Motors and the End of American Enterprise, is intended to show the author is not unsympathetic to the road carnage that preceded the 1960s and the advent of carmaker accountability. Image courtesy of Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group “The Sack of Detroit: General Motors and the End of American Enterprise” by Kenneth Whyte argues that the rise of widespread consumer protection regulation is bad, unnecessary, and perhaps anti-American.
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