Uneasy Partners: Big Business in American Politics, 1945-1990

by Kim McQuaid

Book Overview

Businessmen are politicians in America, writes Kim McQuaid, and politicians are businessmen. Today, in areas as diverse as home mortgages, high technology, and Smart Bombs, the private and public sectors are working together to perform tasks that each is unable to do alone. In Uneasy Partners McQuaid surveys the close ties that have formed between big business and government in the period from World War II to the present.

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801846528
• ISBN13: 9780801846526
• Release Date: December 1993
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"