The Price of Progress : Public Services, Taxation, and the American Corporate State, 1877 To 1929.
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- 9780801875892
- 336.73/09/034
- HJ2053.A1H54 2003
Intro -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- Introduction -- ONE Compromise, Corruption, and Confrontation -- TWO Progress, Bit by Bit -- THREE From Charter-Mongering to Catching Corporate Freeloaders -- FOUR The Second Era of Internal Improvements -- FIVE Consent, Control, and Centralization -- SIX Giants of History -- SEVEN The Test of Democracy -- Conclusion -- APPENDIX -- NOTES -- INDEX.
By the 1920s, a variety of "corporate stateshad proliferated across the nation, each shaped by a particular mix of taxation and public services, each offering a case study in how the business of America, as President Calvin Coolidge put it, became business.
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