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Book Review

Voice of the Marketplace: A History of the National Petroleum Council. By Joseph A. Pratt, William H. Becker, and William M. McClenahan Jr. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2002. xviii, 292 pp. $39.95, ISBN 1-58544-185-6.)
Most Americans, including historians, have probably never heard of the National Petroleum Council (NPC). A government-appointed but industry-financed advisory committee, the NPC presented the views of the petroleum industry to executive branch officials in over two hundred reports between its founding in 1946 and 2001. The NPC's membership was carefully selected to include representatives from all segments of the petroleum industry, and it was later expanded to include representatives from the natural gas industry, financial, consulting, and other service organizations, and consumer and environmental groups. . . .
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