Introduction; I: The Setting; 1: Foreign-Trade Policy prior to 1934 1; 2: The New Republicanism and Renewal 1953; 3: The Randall Report; 4: Renewal 1954; 5: Renewal 1955 and Since; 6: Public Attitudes on Foreign Trade; II: Businessmen’s Attitudes and Communication on Foreign-Trade Policy; 7: Introduction to Part II; 8: Attitudes of American Business Leaders 1954–1955; 9: The Roots of Conviction—Self-Interest and Ideology; 10: Channels of Information; 11: Communications about Foreign-Trade Policy; 12: Communicating with Congress; 13: Businessmen’S Attitudes and Communication—A Summary; III: Eight Communities; 14: Introduction to Part III; 15: Detroit: Hotbed of Free Traders; 16: Delaware: Where the Elephant Takes Care Not to Dance among the Chickens; 17: Wall Street: The Sleeping Giant; 18: New Anglia; 19: Four Inactive Communities; 20: Lessons of the Community Studies; IV: The Pressure Groups; 21: Dramatis Personae; 22: Quasiunanimity—Premise of Action; 23: Further Difficulties of the Pressure Groups; 24: Pressure Group or Service Bureau?; 25: Organizing Communications—Two Protectionist Examples; 26: The CNTP—Spokesman Spokesman for Reciprocal Trade; 27: The Ladies of the League; 28: The Pressure Groups—a Summary; V: The Congressional Process; 29: The Job of the Congressman; 30: Some Areas of Initiative; 31: Congress as a Social System; 32: Communications—Pressure, Influence, or Education?; 33: Conflict of Roles; 34: The Congressional Process—a Summary; VI: Conclusions; 35: Conclusions