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title	:	Mr. Kaiser Goes to Washington : The Rise of a Government Entrepreneur Luther Hartwell Hodges Series On Business, Society, and the State
author	:	Adams, Stephen B.
publisher	:	University of North Carolina Press
isbn10 | asin	:	0807823589
print isbn13	:	9780807823583
ebook isbn13	:	9780807860021
language	:	English
subject	Kaiser, Henry J.,--1882- , Businessmen--United States--Biography, Industrial policy--United States--History.
publication date	:	1997
lcc	:	HC102.5.K3A43 1997eb
ddc	:	338.092
subject	:	Kaiser, Henry J.,--1882- , Businessmen--United States--Biography, Industrial policy--United States--History.

Page iii Mr. Kaiser Goes To Washington The Rise of a Government Entrepreneur Steven B. Adams THE LUTHER HARTWELL HODGES SERIES ON BUSINESS, SOCIETY, AND THE STATE William H. Becker, Editor The University of North Carolina Press Chapel Hill & London

Page iv 1997 The University of North Carolina Press All rights reserved Manufactured in the United States of America The paper in this book meets the guidelines for permanence and durability of the Committee on Production Guidelines for Book Longevity of the Council on Library Resources. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Adams, Stephen B., 1955 Mr. Kaiser goes to Washington: the rise of a government entrepreneur/ Stephen B. Adams. p. cm. (Business, society, and the state) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN O-8078-2358-9 (cloth: alk. paper) 1. Kaiser, Henry J., 1882 2. Businessmen United States Biography. 3. Industrial policy United States History. I. Title. II. Series: Business, society & the state. HC102.5.K3A43 1997 338.092 dc21 [B]96-53391 CIP 01 00 99 98 97 5 4 3 2 1

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Page vii Contents Acknowledgments ix Abbreviations xiii 1 Introduction to a Government Entrepreneur 1 2 The Education of Henry Kaiser 14 3 Government Entrepreneurship Comes of Age 33 4 A Rendezvous with Bureaucracy 63 5 Good Old American Know-Who 87 6 "Fabulous" Kaiser 107 7 To Mars and Back 123 8 Send for Kaiser 145 Epilogue: A Reversal of Fortune 173 Conclusion 182 Notes 187 Bibliography 219 Index 229 A section of illustrations follows p. 86.

Page ix Acknowledgments The assistance I received from so many generous people provides evidence that academics are no more self-made than entrepreneurs are. This book began as a doctoral dissertation at the Johns Hopkins University. My mentor, Louis Galambos, has written extensively about America's twentieth-century political economy, about corporate and presidential leadership, and about how things get done in public and private organizations. In so doing, he redefined the historical study of American institutions including the two that are the focus of this study, business and government. He probed to make sure I was pursuing the power relationships behind this story and pushed me to frame it in the widest, most significant context. I am extremely fortunate to have worked with him. I am also grateful to Jack Fisher, Robert Kargon, Francis Rourke, and Ronald Walters, who as members of my dissertation committee offered excellent advice on an earlier version of this manuscript. When I was an undergraduate at the University of California at Davis, Roland Marchand and Robert Keller introduced me to business history. Years later, they helped guide me toward graduate study and more recently offered helpful and encouraging comments on my Kaiser work. Just as I was starting the project, the first two full-length biographies of Kaiser were published. That alone was fortuitous, but both authors historian Mark Foster and retired Kaiser Steel executive Albert Heiner were extraordinarily enthusiastic supporters all along. They both provided invaluable comments on drafts of my chapters.

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