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
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Decades
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Federal regulation
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Highway construction
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