Preface
Contents
1. Emergence of a New Industry and Public Policy, 1890–1917
2. The Wilson War Program
3. U.S. Oil Policy Overseas: The Middle East, the Pacific, and Latin America, 1919–1924
4. After Teapot Dome: Calvin Coolidge and the Management of Petroleum Resources, 1924–1929
5. Herbert Hoover's Oil Problems
6. State Policies During the Great Depression, 1929–1933
7. A New Deal for Oil
8. World War II
9. Forging Consensus: Oil Policies Under Truman and Eisenhower
10. Natural Gas: The Struggle Over Public Control, 1945–1964
11. Conclusion: Cooperation in American Economic Policy
Appendix
Bibliographical Essay
Index