Volume 36, Number 12 · July 20, 1989
Democrats on the Take
By Thomas Byrne Edsall
Fluctuating Fortunes: The Political Power of Business in America
by David Vogel
Basic Books, 337 pp., $20.95
Honest Graft: Big Money and the American Political Process
by Brooks Jackson
Knopf, 337 pp., $18.95
Two decades ago, Congress swept aside the concerns of the big three auto companies, the major oil and steel companies, the powerful mining and construction industries—in effect, the most powerful economic interests in the country. The Congress did so when it set price controls on oil, enacted tough restrictions on air and water pollution, created a Consumer Product Safety Commission, and established the Occupational Health and Safety Administration.
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