About the Author
Joseph A. Pratt is Cullen Professor of History and Business at the University of Houston. A historian of the petroleum industry, he has written several previous business histories, including three published with Texas A&M University Press. William H. Becker is Professor of History and Strategic Management and Public Policy at George Washington University. He has written several books focused on government and business. William M. (Mack) McClenahan, Jr., teaches at the University of Maryland and also serves as a research assistant for the Business History Group and an expert witness for the Department of Justice, where he prepares analyses of business-government relations for Superfund litigation.
