{"product_id":"the-best-transportation-system-in-the-world-9780812221169","title":"The Best Transportation System in the World","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book focuses on the role 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The authors have ambitiously tackled a massive topic and have succeeded in showing the complexities of regulatory policies over an extended period, grasping the 'big picture.'. . . This type of study is long overdue, filling a void in the literature of American transportation history.\" * Roger Grant, \u003ci\u003eEnterprise and Society\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\"This important book argues persuasively that it was history and politics, not markets and competition, that determined public policy toward transportation from 1920 to 1980. Skillfully pulling together the histories of the various modes of transportation, the book makes the case that politics was more significant even than technical expertise-invariably, the work of experts was bested by politics.\" * William H. Becker, George Washington University *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003e Introduction\u003cbr\u003e Ch.1. Seeking a new regulatory regime in transportation: railroad consolidation in the 1920s\u003cbr\u003e Ch. 2. The new transportation problem: the politics of transportation coordination, 1925-1940\u003cbr\u003e Ch. 3. Constructing commercial aviation, 1944-1973\u003cbr\u003e Ch. 4. Run-up to deregulation: surface transportation, 1949-1970\u003cbr\u003e Ch. 5. Transportation in a \"Presidential Nation\"\u003cbr\u003e Ch. 6. Richard M. Nixon and planning for deregulation, 1970-1974\u003cbr\u003e Ch. 7. Gerald R. Ford and presidential deregulation, 1974-1977\u003cbr\u003e Ch. 8. Jimmy Carter and deregulation of the \"best transportation system in the world,\" 1977-1980\u003cbr\u003e Ch. 9. The American state and transportation\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Pennsylvania Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405698179415,"sku":"9780812221169","price":25.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780812221169.jpg?v=1730493317","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-best-transportation-system-in-the-world-9780812221169","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}