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The best transportation system in the world : railroads, trucks, airlines, and American public policy in the twentieth century

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-
Publication: Columbus : Ohio State University Press, c2006.

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Description

xxvi, 318 p. : ill., maps; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Historical perspectives on business enterprise

Uniform Title

Historical perspectives on business enterprise series.

Subject

Transportation and state > United States > History > 20th century

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. 241-300) and index.

Contents

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.

Call Number

JBE 07-725

ISBN

0814210368 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780814210369 (cloth : alk. paper)
0814291139 (cd-rom)
9780814291139 (cd-rom)

LCCN

2006003482

OCLC

63692585

Author

Rose, Mark H., 1942-

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.

Imprint

Columbus : Ohio State University Press, c2006.

Series

Historical perspectives on business enterprise

Historical perspectives on business enterprise series.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (p. 241-300) and index.

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Table of contents only

Added Author

Seely, Bruce Edsall, 1953-

Barrett, Paul F., 1943-2004.

Research Call Number

JBE 07-725

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