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Enterprise and Society Advance Access published online on June 21, 2007
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Copyright © The Author 2007. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Business History Conference.

Mark H. Rose, Bruce E. Seely, and Paul F. Barrett. The Best Transportation System in the World: Railroads, Trucks, Airlines, and American Public Policy in the Twentieth Century

Mark H. Rose, Bruce E. Seely, and Paul F. Barrett. The Best Transportation System in the World: Railroads, Trucks, Airlines, and American Public Policy in the Twentieth Century. Columbus, Ohio: The Ohio State University Press, 2006 xxvi + 318 pp. ISBN 0-8142-1036-8, $49.95 (cloth)

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As the mammoth title of this book suggests, the three authors, Mark Rose, Bruce Seely and the late Paul Barrett, cover public policy matters that relate to the core forms of commercial transportation in the United States during the past century. In the process, they first examine railroads, indicating that progressive-era politicians brought about harsh statutes that damaged the earnings powers of these quasi-public corporations. Following the period of federalization . . . [Full Text of this Article]

H. Roger Grant

Clemson University


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