Lobbying America: The Politics of Business from Nixon to NAFTA

by Benjamin C. Waterhouse

Lobbying America tells the story of the political mobilization of American business in the 1970s and 1980s. Benjamin Waterhouse traces the rise and ultimate fragmentation of a broad-based effort to unify the business community and promote a fiscally conservative, antiregulatory, and market-oriented policy agenda to Congress and the country at large. Arguing that business's political involvement was historically distinctive during this period,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 069114916X
• ISBN13: 9780691149165
• Release Date: November 2013
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.2" x 9.2"