| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 89.3

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Big Government and Affirmative Action: The Scandalous History of the Small Business Administration. By Jonathan J. Bean. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2001. xii, 224 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-8131-2187-6.)

For a nation that has subscribed to the credo that bigness was badness, it is surprising that little has been written on governmental support for small business, probably because both legislatively and economically most of its few actions have been reactive rather than proactive. In fact, little was accomplished to aid small business until the birth of the Small Business Administration (SBA) in the first years of the Eisenhower administration. 1

Jonathan J. Bean, an associate professor at Southern Illinois University and an expert in the interaction of the federal government and small business, has followed up on his Beyond the Broker State (1996), detailing the history of the SBA and the ramifications of its programs. His careful analysis, his all-encompassing bibliography, and his inclusive endnotes make this the definitive monograph, supplanting Addison Parris's The Small Business Administration (1968). . . .

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