Introduction

Part I: “A GREAT POWER WITH NO CHALLENGERS”

1. The Postwar Partnership of Business, Labor, and Government
2. Rethinking the Liberal Embrace of Government Agencies

Part II: “WHO REGULATES THE REGULATOR?”

3. Creating Public Interest Firms
4. “Insecure” Power and the Nonprofit Rationale
5. Making Regulation “Government-Proof”
6. “Sue the Bastards”

Part III: “GOVERNMENT IS THE PROBLEM”

7. Institutionalizing the Public Interest Movement
8. The Carter Administration’s Struggle for Balance
9. Stalemate: The 1980 Election and Its Legacy

Epilogue

Acknowledgments

Notes

Index