Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Colonial Prologue -- Chapter 2. Contested Recovery -- Chapter 3. The Business of War -- Chapter 4. The Right to Rule -- Chapter 5. Grasstops Democracy -- Chapter 6. Forecasting the Business Climate -- Chapter 7. "Second War Between the States" -- Chapter 8. Industrial Phoenix -- Chapter 9. The Conspicuous Grasstops -- Chapter 10. "A Frankenstein's Monster" -- Epilogue Whither Phoenix? -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Index -- Acknowledgments
Summary
Historian Elizabeth Tandy Shermer examines how Barry Goldwater and elite Phoenix businessmen used policy and federal funds to fashion a postwar "business climate," setting off an interstate competition for investment that transformed American politics
