| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 89.1

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Book Review

Making Connections: The Long-Distance Bus Industry in the USA. By Margaret Walsh. (Aldershot, Eng.: Ashgate, 2000. xviii, 245 pp. $74.95, ISBN 0-7546-0207-9.)

For over fifteen years, Margaret Walsh, reader in American economic and social history at the University of Nottingham, has traversed the United States in search of sources on the long-distance bus industry. This compilation of her previously published articles—with some new material—is a happy occasion for transportation, social, cultural, and business historians of modern America. While uneven, in part a reflection of the unavailability of primary sources, and repetitious, the result of republishing earlier work without editing, the book makes two important contributions: It presents an accessible overview of an understudied industry and provides intriguing case studies showing how business history can be combined with social and cultural history techniques. . . .

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