![]() | Lobbying America: The Politics of Business from Nixon to NAFTA Subjects: Lobbying -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Pressure groups -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Political action committees -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Corporations -- Political activity -- United States -- History -- 2; Lobbying America tells the story of the political mobilization of American business in the 1970s and 1980s. Benjamin Waterhouse traces the rise and ultimate fragmentation of a broad-based effort to unify the business community and promote a fiscally conservative, antiregulatory, and market-oriented policy agenda to Congress and the country at large. Arguing that business's political involvement was historically distinctive during this period, Waterhouse illustrates the changing power and goals of America's top corporate leaders. Benjamin C. Waterhouse is associate professor of history at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. |
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