Trucking Country: The Road to America's Wal-Mart Economy. By Shane Hamilton. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2008. 344p. $29.95

In this timely new book, Shane Hamilton offers a compelling account of the politics of long-haul trucking in the postwar United States and, in particular, its contribution to the rise of economic conservatism by the end of the 1970s. This work, exhaustive in its research, explains a range of critica...

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Published in:Perspectives on politics 2009-06, Vol.7 (2), p.377-378
Main Author: Lowndes, Joseph E.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
20th century
Agribusiness
Agriculture
Country music
Culture
Decades
Farmers
Federal regulation
Food
Highway construction
Political science
Politics
Trucking
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Summary:In this timely new book, Shane Hamilton offers a compelling account of the politics of long-haul trucking in the postwar United States and, in particular, its contribution to the rise of economic conservatism by the end of the 1970s. This work, exhaustive in its research, explains a range of critical developments in twentieth-century political economy from the perspective of trucking: from the struggles within and between various federal agencies over farm, labor and consumption policies; to advances in truck design, highway construction, refrigeration, and food packaging technologies; to the cultural development of a trucking genre within country music and Hollywood films.
ISSN:1537-5927
1541-0986
DOI:10.1017/S1537592709090884