1st Edition
Making Connections The Long-Distance Bus Industry in the USA
Introduction
Main Routes: From Jitney to Giant: the early growth of long-distance bus transport in the USA
Missing connections: the long-distance bus industry in the USA from the Second World War to deregulation
Regional Highways: Tracing the hound: the Minnesota roots of the Greyhound Bus Corporation; Iowa’s bus queen: Helen M. Schultz and the Red Ball Transportation Company
Minnesota’s ‘Mr Bus’: Edgar F. Zelle and the Jefferson Highway Transportation Company
Alternative Avenues: The Motor Carrier Act of 1935: the origins and establishment of federal regulation of the interstate bus industry in the USA
“See this amazing America”: the long-distance bus industry’s use of advertising in its first quarter century
Not Rosie the Riveter: women’s diverse roles in the making of the American long-distance bus industry
On and off the buses: 1940s images from New York
Bibliographical essay and bibliography
Index.
Biography
Linda L. Berger is Family Found’n Professor of Law at University of Nevada Las Vegas, Boyd School of Law. She has helped develop the field of applied legal rhetoric and has published widely in this and related areas. Kathryn M. Stanchi is Professor of Law at Temple University Beasley School of Law. She is recognized as the leading scholar to bring persuasion science into the literature of legal persuasion. She has published and lectured extensively on this and related topics.
