Download or read book Prophets of Regulation written by Thomas K. McCraw and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1986-10-15 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "There is properly no history, only biography," Emerson remarked, and in this ingenious book Thomas McGraw unfolds the history of four powerful men: Charles Francis Adams, Louis D. Brandeis, James M. Landis, and Alfred E. Kahn. The absorbing stories he tells make this a book that will appeal across a wide spectrum of academic disciplines and to all readers interested in history, biography, and Americana.