Introduction: business interests, special interests, and the public interest -- Oil and water : the public and the private on southern California beaches, 1920-1950 -- Influence through cooperation : the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce and air pollution control in Los Angeles, 1943-1954 -- Flood control and political exclusion at Whittier Narrows, 1938-1948 -- Private power at Hoover dam : utilities, government power, and political realism, 1920-1928 -- The triumph of localism : the rejection of national water planning in 1950 -- Conclusion : small government and big business in the mid-twentieth century.
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The Luther H. Hodges Jr. and Luther H. Hodges Sr. series on business, society, and the state
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