INCLUDES INDEX.

1. The Truman administration: toward a national energy policy / Craufurd D. Goodwin -- 2. Truman administration policies toward particular energy sources / Craufurd D. Goodwin -- 3. The Eisenhower energy policy: reluctant intervention / William J. Barber -- 4. Studied inaction in the Kennedy years / William J. Barber -- 5. Energy policy in the Johnson administration: logical order versus economic pluralism / James L. Cochrane -- 6. Energy policy under Nixon: mainly putting out fires / Neil de Marchi -- 7. The Ford administration: energy as a political good / Neil de Marchi -- 8. Carter energy policy and the Ninety-fifth Congress / James L. Cochrane -- 9. The energy battles of 1979 / Joseph A. Yager -- 10. Energy in America's future: the difficult transition / Joseph A. Yager -- 11. The lessons of history / Craufurd D. Goodwin -- Appendix: U.S. energy: a quantitative review of the past three decades / James L. Cochrane and Gary L. Griepentrog.