TY - JOUR AU - Schuker, Stephen A. AB - Book Reviews 797 ed by image makers, and the focus is on that R. Berghahn. (Princeton: Princeton U-niver sity Press, 2014. xii, 375 pp. $49.50.) relationship. At the same time, journalists are wooden figures, by and large (with some no - table exceptions, such as Walter Lippmann), Volker R. Berghahn has written a dozen books on German political and business history. He who are manipulated and maneuvered. has also gracefully addressed the cultural The book concentrates on successful ad - and entrepreneurial interpenetration o - f Ger ministrations. More than half of the text con - man and American business. He thus stands cerns six of the best-remembered presidencies uniquely qualified to present a comparative of the early to mid-twentieth century. The account of American business in Britain and weaker leaders of the early twentieth century Germany in the twentieth century. Assessing and the presidents after Lyndon B. Johnson the era from 1900 to World War I, Berghahn are reviewed quickly and superficially. William draws imaginatively on the papers of Frank Howard Taft and Gerald R. Ford are com - A. Vanderlip, the president of the National pletely ignored. Greenberg only dips a toe into City Bank of New TI - American Big Business in Britain and Germany: A Comparative History of Two “Special Relationships” in the Twentieth Century JF - The Journal of American History DO - 10.1093/jahist/jaw425 DA - 2016-12-01 UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/american-big-business-in-britain-and-germany-a-comparative-history-of-8sZrpd0aRs SP - 797 EP - 798 VL - 103 IS - 3 DP - DeepDyve ER -