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Table of Contents Acknowledgments Contributors Introduction What's Good for Business? By Kim Phillips-Fein and Julian E. Zelizer 1. The Advantages of Obscurity: World War II Tax Carry-Back Provisions and the Normalization of Corporate Welfare by Mark R. Wilson 2. Virtue, Necessity, and Irony in the Politics of Civil Rights: Organized Business and Fair Employment Practices in Postwar Cleveland by Anthony S. Chen 3. Moving Mountains: The Business of Evangelicalism and Extraction in a Liberal Age by Darren Dochuk 4. Take Government Out of Business By Putting Business Into Government: Local Boosters, National CEOs, Experts, and the Politics of Mid-Century Capital Mobility by Elizabeth Tandy Shermer 5. The Liberal Invention of the Multinational Corporation: David Lilienthal and Postwar Capitalism by Jason Scott Smith 6. Pharmaceutical Politics and Regulatory Reform in Postwar America by Dominique A. Tobbell 7. Games of Chance: Jim Crow's Entrepreneurs Bet on 'Negro' Law-and-Order by N.D.B. Connolly 8. The End of Public Power: Place and the Postwar Electric Utility Industry by Andrew Needham 9. Supermarkets, Free Markets, and the Problem of Buyer Power in the Postwar United States by Shane Hamilton 10. Rethinking the Postwar Corporation: Management, Monopolies, and Markets by Louis Hyman 11. The Politics of Environmental Regulation: Business-Government Relations in the 1970s and Beyond by Meg Jacobs 12. The Corporate Mobilization against Liberal Reform: Big Business Day, 1980 by Benjamin Waterhouse Epilogue by Kim Phillips-Fein and Julian E. Zelizer

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