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Paperback The Best Transportation System in the World: Railroads, Trucks, Airlines, and American Public Policy in the Twentieth Century Book

ISBN: 0812221168

ISBN13: 9780812221169

The Best Transportation System in the World: Railroads, Trucks, Airlines, and American Public Policy in the Twentieth Century

(Part of the Historical Perspectives on Business Enterprise Series)

The Best Transportation System in the World focuses on the centrality of government in organizing the nation's transportation industries. As the authors show, over the course of the twentieth century, transportation in the United States was as much a product of hard-fought politics, lobbying, and litigation as it was a naturally evolving system of engineering and available technology.

For example, in the mid-1950s, President Eisenhower,...

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