Alan Brinkley, in The Join-milofAmerican History (Sept. 1993),1125 E. Atwater Ave., Bloomiiigton, Ind. 47401-3701.
The antimonopoly movement was once one of the more potent forces in American politics. It seemed on its way to new heights when Thur- man W. Arnold (1891-1969) took over the Justice Department's Antitrust Division in 1938, during the New Deal. Arnold had a radical new notion of trustbusting, and while his tenure was quite successful in some respects, he failed to win the public over...