| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 94.2

You have not been recognized as a subscriber to JAH online. About 168 words from this article are provided below; about 400 words remain.

If you are a individual member of the Organization of American Historians, you may:: • login here if you have already registered for online access.; • Or if you're already logged in register your subscription.
• Set up your online account for the first time.
If you are not a member of the Organization of American Historians, you can:: • Join the OAH and receive many member benefits including print and electronic issues of the Journal of American History.
• Purchase a research pass to gain two-hour access to the entire History Cooperative web site. You will have full access to current issues of the Journal of American History (86.1-present). Note: the Research Pass does not provide access to JSTOR's holdings of the Journal of American History.
Instititutions can:: • Subscribe to this journal and receive print and electronic issues.
• Activate your existing subscription so that we recognize your IP number ranges.

| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 94.2 | The History Cooperative

Book Review

Antitrust and Global Capitalism, 1930–2004. By Tony A. Freyer. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006. xiv, 437 pp. $80.00, ISBN 978-0-521-81788-2.)
Tony A. Freyer's important new book, Antitrust and Global Capitalism, 1930–2004, traces the development of antitrust, or competition, law since the 1930s. No one seriously doubts that antitrust laws significantly affect economic structure or that such laws, quite rare before World War II, have since spread throughout the world. Freyer, however, examines the subject in greater detail than any previous scholar.	1
He starts, appropriately enough, with the United States, the first country to develop an effective antitrust regime. In particular, he emphasizes how Thurman Arnold, who led the Justice Department's Antitrust Division in the late 1930s and early 1940s, reinvigorated and altered the direction of enforcement. Arnold sought, not to break up large companies, but to make them accountable for their behavior, and his effort ultimately produced a fairly strict set of rules governing competition and mergers among American businesses.	. . .

There are about 400 more words in this article. Please log in (or, if you are not yet an authorized user, please go to the User Setup page) to gain full access rights. Or if you're already logged in register your subscription.