1. In addition to Professor Becker's review, the reader may want to refer to other equally challenging and interesting essays on Making America Corporate by David Landes, The New Republic, 10 December 1990, 38–43; Boyer, Paul, Virginia Quarterly Review 67 (Autumn 1991): 753–59Google Scholar; Nugent, Walter, Reviews in American History 19 (June 1991): 224–27CrossRefGoogle Scholar; Galambos, Louis, Technology and Culture 33 (April 1992): 362–64CrossRefGoogle Scholar; Kerr, K. Austin, Business History Review 65 (Summer 1992): 438–40, among others.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

2. For a comprehensive overview of Chandler's work, see The Essential Alfred Chandler, ed. McCraw, Thomas (Boston, 1988)Google Scholar; Yates, JoAnne, Control Through Communication: The Rise of System in American Management (Baltimore, 1989).Google Scholar

3. Review by Rodgers, Daniel T., Journal of Social History 25 (Spring 1992): 632–34.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

4. Review by McGerr, Michael, Journal of American History 78 (December 1991): 1101–02. To add to my confusion, McGerr attributed the point that he criticized me for (and with which I strongly disagree) in his paper on the organizational synthesis at the 1992 OAH.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

5. Review by Strasser, Susan, AHR 97 (February 1992): 293–94.Google Scholar

6. Review by Licht, Walter, Journal of Interdisciplinary History 22 (Spring 1992): 754–56.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

7. David Riesman to Olivier Zunz, 21 September 1990. I thank Professor Riesman for giving me permission to quote from his letter. I reprinted excerpts from a letter from Hofstadter to Mills in the introduction to Making America Corporate.