Introduction: American Business, American Politics 1. - Chapter 1: From Consensus to a Crisis of Confidence 14. - Chapter 2: A New Life for Old Lobbies 46. - Chapter 3: The Birth of the Business Roundtable 76. - Chapter 4: Business, Labor, and the Politics of Inflation 106. - Chapter 5: The...

Tobacco in industrializing America -- Tobacco's New Deal -- Cultivating the grower -- The challenge of the public interest -- Inventing the non-smoker -- From rights to cost -- Shredding a net to build a web -- Conclusion: "Weeds are hard to kill": the future of tobacco politics.