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Author
Title
The Great tax wars / Steven R. Weisman.
Published
New York : Simon & Schuster, [2002]
Copyright
©2002
Call Number
HJ4652 .W556 2002
Variant Title
On p. facing t.p.: Lincoln to Wilson : the fierce battles over money and power that transformed the nation
ISBN
0684850680
Description
419 pages ; 24 cm
System Control No.
(OCoLC)180776795
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 389-398) and index.
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Table of Contents
Introduction
1
1
"Circumstances Most Unpropitious and Forbidding": The Civil War Begins
9
2
"Chase Has No Money ...": The Union's Income Tax Is Enacted
29
3
"Every Man's Duty to Contribute": The Agony of the South
51
4
"There Is No Tax More Equal": The Union Saved, and America Transformed
75
5
"The Communism of Combined Wealth": Politics and the Panic of 1893
105
6
"Fraught with Danger ... to Each and Every Citizen": Enacted by the People, Rejected by the Court
131
7
"A Peculiar Obligation to the State": Theodore Roosevelt Proposes an Income Tax
173
8
"The Congress Shall Have Power ...": The Sixteenth Amendment Is Launched
207
9
"It Will Lighten the Burdens of the Poor": The Sixteenth Amendment Is Ratified
237
10
"Here at Last Was Fruition ...": The Income Tax Is Enacted
267
11
"What Did We Do? What Did We Do?": Woodrow Wilson Raises Revenue for an Impeding War
289
12
"The Dawn of a Day of Righteousness": The Income Tax, the Great War and the Counterreaction
315
Epilogue
349
Notes
369
Bibliography
389
Acknowledgments
399
Index
405