Author: Chris Mead
Publisher: John Cruger Press
ISBN: 9780990303305
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 517
Book Description
The first-ever full-length history of chambers of commerce in the United States, describes how voluntary groups of business people changed not only their local economies but often their society. The Magicians of Main Street describes how chambers of commerce affected the nation's finance and currency, public health, transportation, public works, local government, education, and even cultural life.