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Canada and the United States

Joseph A. Pratt, William H. Becker, and William M. McClenahan, Jr. Voice of the Marketplace: A History of the National Petroleum Council. Foreword by Daniel Yergin. (Kenneth E. Montague Series in Oil and Business History, number 13.) College Station: Texas A&M University Press. 2002. pp. xvii, 292. $39.95.

This history of the National Petroleum Council (NPC) contributes both to the literature on the evolution of energy policy in the United States and to larger questions concerning the rise of the American corporate state in the twentieth century. One of the authors, Joseph A. Pratt, and Louis Galambos addressed this broader subject in their earlier work, The Rise of the Corporate Commonwealth: United States Business and Public Policy in the Twentieth Century (1988). Accompanied by a supportive introduction from Daniel Yergin and written with the imprimatur and full cooperation of the NPC, this volume offers a ringing tribute to the objectivity, credibility, and national security importance of the information this industry group has provided to government agencies. One could make the counter argument that the NPC was somewhat more self-serving and polemical at various stages as, for example, in its opposition to synthetic fuel programs and its animosity toward environmental regulation. The important point, however, is that while scholars have been writing about corporatism and business-government cooperation for some time, rarely have they had the opportunity to examine the hypothesis from within an industry body with the freedom and accessibility that has been extended to Pratt, William H. Becker, and William M. McClenahan, Jr.

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