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Warhogs : A History of War Profits in America
The Puritans condemned war profiteering as a ""Provoking Evil, "" George Washington feared that it would ruin the Revolution, and Franklin D. Roosevelt promised many times that he would never permit the rise of another crop of ""war millionaires."" Yet on ever...
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Lexington :
The University Press of Kentucky,
2015.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. A Provoking Evil; 2. Virtue Tested; 3. Left-Handed; Mr. Madison's War; Mr. Polk's War; 4. The ""Shoddyocracy""; Shoddy Uniforms; Railroads; Shipping; Fortifications; Firearms; Advanced Weapons; Provisions; Speculation; Trading with the Enemy; Plunder; Fraud; Manpower; Censure and Control; Contributions; 5. Toward the Great War; Profits and the New Navy; The Spanish War; The Progressives and Defense Profits; Antipreparedness; 6. Warhogs and Warsows; 7. Supplying the Doughboys; Procurement; Cantonments.
- AircraftCopper, Steel, and Shipping; 8. Grave Objections; 9. Profits or Peace?; 10. Penning the Warhog; The New Deal Congress and Profiteering; FDR's Campaign against War Profits; The Demise of Profit Limitation; The President Compromises; The Excess Profits Tax; Roosevelt's Concession to Business; 11. A Prescription for Profiteering; Dr. Win-the-War; Wartime Politics; Excess Profits Taxes; Price Controls; The Black Market; The New Deal Subsidizes Corporate America; ""Legal Profiteering""; The Warhog Survives; 12. War Profits and Cold War Cult.
- Appendix A: Graft Convictions, Officers of the Continental ArmyAppendix B: Profits of Selected Defense Contractors; Notes; Bibliographic Note; Index.