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| TITLE: |
The best transportation system in the world : railroads, trucks, airlines, and American public policy in the twentieth century / Mark H. Rose, Bruce E. Seely, Paul F. Barrett. |
| AUTHOR: |
Rose, Mark H., 1942- |
| SERIES: |
Historical perspectives on business enterprise |
| PUBLISHED: |
Columbus : Ohio State University Press, c2006. |
| DESCRIPTION: |
xxvi, 318 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm. |
| NOTES: |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 241-300) and index. |
| NOTES: |
Preface and acknowledgments -- Seeking a new regulatory regime in transportation: railroad consolidation in the 1920s -- The new transportation problem: the politics of transportation coordination, 1925-1940 -- Constructing commercial aviation, 1944-1973 -- Run-up to deregulation: surface transportation, 1949-1970 -- Transportation in a "presidential nation" -- Richard M. Nixon and planning for deregulation, 1970-1974 -- Gerald R. Ford and presidential deregulation, 1974-1977 -- Jimmy Carter and deregulation of the "best transportation system in the world," 1977-1980 -- The American state and transportation, 1980-1995 |
| SUBJECT: |
Transportation and state--United States--History--20th century. |
| ADDED ENTRY: |
Barrett, Paul F., 1943-2004. |
| ADDED ENTRY: |
Seely, Bruce Edsall, 1953- |
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