Prophets of Regulation"There is properly no history, only biography," Emerson remarked, and in this ingenious book Thomas McGraw 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. |
Contents
Adams and the Sunshine Commission | 1 |
State to Federal Railroads to Trusts | 57 |
Brandeis and the Origins of the FTC | 80 |
Antitrust Regulation and the FTC | 143 |
Landis and the Statecraft of the SEC | 153 |
Ascent Decline and Rebirth | 210 |
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