LEADER 03278oam 22006134a 450 001 9910781585203321 005 20170810172815.0 010 $a1-4696-0270-9 010 $a0-8078-6911-2 035 $a(CKB)2550000000065017 035 $a(EBL)797772 035 $a(OCoLC)762097525 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000537652 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11965799 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000537652 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10567411 035 $a(PQKB)11623637 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000243982 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse23372 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC797772 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000065017 100 $a20101217d2011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aHow Local Politics Shape Federal Policy$eBusiness, Power, and the Environment in Twentieth-Century Los Angeles /$fSarah S. Elkind 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$aChapel Hill :$cUniversity of North Carolina Press,$d2011. 210 3$aBaltimore, Md. :$cProject MUSE, $d2013 210 4$dİ2011. 215 $a1 online resource (284 p.) 225 0 $aThe Luther H. Hodges Jr. and Luther H. Hodges Sr. series on business, society, and the state 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-4696-1897-4 311 $a0-8078-3489-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroduction: 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. 330 $aFocusing on five Los Angeles environmental policy debates between 1920 and 1950, Sarah Elkind investigates how practices in American municipal government gave business groups political legitimacy at the local level as well as unanticipated influence over federal politics.

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