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The Power of Business in Twentieth-Century America - Scott R. Bowman, The Modern Corporation and American Political Thought: Law, Power, and Ideology (University Park: Penn State Press, 1996). Pp. xii, 436. $55.00 hc., $16.95 pb. - Elizabeth A. Fones-Wolf, Selling Free Enterprise: The Business Assault on Labor and Liberalism, 1945–1960 (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1994). Pp. xii, 307. $49.95 hc., $16.95 pb. - David Vogel, Kindred Strangers: The Uneasy Relationship Between Politics and Business in America (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1996). Pp. vii, 415. $35.00.

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Scott R. Bowman, The Modern Corporation and American Political Thought: Law, Power, and Ideology (University Park: Penn State Press, 1996). Pp. xii, 436. $55.00 hc., $16.95 pb.
Elizabeth A. Fones-Wolf, Selling Free Enterprise: The Business Assault on Labor and Liberalism, 1945–1960 (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1994). Pp. xii, 307. $49.95 hc., $16.95 pb.
David Vogel, Kindred Strangers: The Uneasy Relationship Between Politics and Business in America (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1996). Pp. vii, 415. $35.00.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 October 2011

Terence Kehoe
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Journal of Policy History , Volume 10 , Issue 2 , April 1998 , pp. 261 - 265
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Copyright © The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA. 1998

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1. Sklar, , The Corporate Reconstruction of American Capitalism, 1890–1916: The Market, The Law, and Politics (Cambridge, 1987).Google Scholar

2. Vogel, , Fluctuating Fortunes: The Political Power of Business in America (New York, 1989).Google Scholar

3. For earlier criticism in this vein, see Samuel P. Hays's scathing review of Vogel, National Styles of Regulation: Environmental Policy in Great Britain and the United States (Ithaca, N.Y., 1986)Google Scholar, in Business History Review 61 (Autumn 1987): 505–7.Google Scholar