The myth of liberal ascendancy : corporate dominance from the Great Depression to the great recession / G. William Domhoff.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 272-293) and index.

Demonstrating corporate dominance -- The rise and sudden decline of the Liberal-Labor Alliance, 1934-1938 -- Leadership for corporate moderates : 1939-1945 -- The postwar years and the Truman administration -- Corporate moderate frustrations : the Eisenhower years -- Corporate moderate successes in the Kennedy years -- Corporate moderation and more success : the Johnson years -- New sources of conflict between corporations and unions -- Corporate policy success and economic failure in the first Nixon administration -- The rise of the business roundtable and tension within CED, 1973-1976 -- Corporate triumphs during the Carter administration -- The Reagan culmination, 1981-1984 -- The road to the great recession.