university s professor, uh author of the unfinished nation. it was finished in 2008, but way off on the number of suspects charged with terror-related crimes since 9/11. only one such suspect was ever charged with a crime. that it is not correct. s at least 129 suspects were not only charged, but convicted of federal prore related crimes when that edition was published.mewhen we asked if he planned toion wa correct the mistake. he responded to fox news this way, quote, the unfinished nation will appear in a new edition later this year. you can judge for yourself atear that point how it treats the issues. t how well, that new edition was released last december. reld a list of suspects convicted had grown to at least 523. but the section in question in this latest version was nown deleted. we asked professor brinkly for an interview.in he declined. decned. we also asked why the section was emitted in the 6th edition.omit his replay?
didn t i read this and sure enough, over in this other books, paragraph after paragraph, two books by two completely different authors, they are identical, textbooks are almost set up to fail by the way they are authored. good morning. this is columbia university professor alan brinkley, as the chief academic officer or provost he wrote the $60 textbook entitled the unfinished nation and his 2008 edition did not have the facts straight about the number of terror suspects charged in the attacks of september 11th, 2001. sir, you talk at the end you say one such suspect was ever charged with the crime. that is not correct, is it, sir? you have nothing to say? at least 129 suspects had been convicted of terror related charges in u.s. federal courts, when professor brinkley s book was published. we posted their names on fox
news.com. we asked him if he plans to correct the inaccuracies in the next edition. here s his e-mailed response to fox news. quote: the unfinished nation will appear in a new edition later this year and you can judge for yourself at that point how it treats the issues. that new edition is expected to cost $77.81. the question remains, how are these mistakes making their way into textbooks? they are selling them on the basis of how they look and in a way they look good, colored pictures all over them and box all over the place. reading programs are 50 to $80 million investments and certainly you want to get it the way the customer wants it. unfortunately, the customer is not the teacher. in 30 open territories states publishers sell textbooks to individual school districts. another 20 states have what is called textbook adoption. where the board of education chooses textbooks for the entire state.