ENERGY:
There are many under-investigated subjects in academe. Economic his- tory-as opposed to economic theory or policvmaking-is one of them. he gap "is apparent to anyone look- ins for com~rehensive accounts of
u.S. and foreign development of oil, gas, coal, and nuclear energy. Histor- ical treatment of these topics tends to be superficial, heavily biased, or unreadable. We offer a few excep- tions here.
Study in Power (Scribner's, 1953), historian Allan Nevins's sympathe- tic, two-v...