In this ingenious book Thomas McCraw unfolds the history of four powerful men: Charles Francis Adams, Louis D. Brandeis, James M. Landis, and Alfred E. Kahn. The absorbing stories he tells make this a book that will appeal across a wide spectrum of academic disciplines and to all readers interested in history, biography, and Americana.
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In this ingenious book Thomas McCraw unfolds the history of four powerful men: Charles Francis Adams, Louis D. Brandeis, James M. Landis, and Alfred E. Kahn. The absorbing stories he tells make this a book that will appeal across a wide spectrum of academic disciplines and to all readers interested in history, biography, and Americana.
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Good, fair. 25 cm, 387, illus., index, DJ worn, soiled, and torn, pencil erasure on front endpaper. Winner of Pulitzer Prize in History. Discusses the development of government regulatory traditions in 20th-century America, and illuminates as well the broader course of modern reform.
