The Corporate State and the Broker State: The Du Ponts and American National Politics, 1925-1940

by Robert F. Burk and Robert Fredrick Burk

Book Overview

The du Ponts, one of the most powerful families in American industry, actively fought the policies that gave government more and more power over the economy. It was not centralization they opposed--indeed, the New Deal initially gained their favor because it appeared to promise a "corporate state" administered along the same lines as a business organization--but the sharing, or brokering, of power among various political interests. If government...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674172728
• ISBN13: 9780674172722
• Release Date: February 1990
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 359 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.5" x 9.5"