Brandeis and the New Haven-Boston & Maine Merger Battle Revisited*

Richard M. Abrams

Business History Review, 1962, vol. 36, issue 4, 408-430

Abstract: Despite Louis Brandeis' well-publicized opposition to the New Haven-Boston & Maine railroad merger of 1907–1909, a large number of public-spirited men, including many progressive reform leaders whom Brandeis had worked with and admired, favored the combination. They saw the merger not as a conspiracy against the public interest, but a necessary response in the public interest to a commercial crisis in Massachusetts. This examination of their reasoning and action tempers Brandeis' widely accepted assessment of the controversy.

Date: 1962
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