Lobbying America
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March 26, 2014 \\u2014\\xa0Benjamin Waterhouse is an assistant professor of History at the University of North Carolina and the author of the new book, \\u201cLobbying America: The Politics of Business from Nixon to\\xa0NAFTA.\\u201d Waterhouse follows the role that business associations \\u2014 particularly the Business Roundtable, the\\xa0US\\xa0Chamber of Commerce, and the National Association of Manufacturers \\u2014 played in the conservative drift in American politics since the early 1970s. In the conversation, Waterhouse discusses how business changed the tenor of political discourse (and fought off Ralph Nader and \\u201cconsumerists\\u201d). He also rejects the notion that theU.S.\\xa0doesn\\u2019t have an \\xa0\\u201cindustrial policy\\u201d \\u2014 it\\u2019s just an industrial policy that has favored large firms through policies like\\xa0NAFTA.
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