Title:
The great tax wars : Lincoln to Wilson, the fierce battles over money and power that transformed the nation / Steven R. Weisman.
Author:
Weisman, Steven R.
Frank and Virginia Williams Collection of Lincolniana (Mississippi State University. Libraries)
Publication Information:
New York : Simon & Schuster, ©2002.
Call Number:
HJ4652 .W556 2002
Abstract:
Examines the years between the Civil War and World War I as a period of significant change, tracing a rise of wealth and power, the bitter war between the Populists and Progressives, and the birth of America as a global power.
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ISBN:
9780684850689
Physical Description:
419 pages ; 25 cm
Contents:
"Circumstances most unpropitious and forbidding" : the Civil War begins -- "Chase has no money" : the Union's income tax is enacted -- "Every man's duty to contribute" : the agony of the South -- "There is no tax more equal" : the Union saved, and America transformed -- communism of combined wealth" : politics and the panic of 1893 -- "Fraught with danger to each and every citizen" : enacted by the people, rejected by the court -- peculiar obligation to the state" : Theodore Roosevelt proposes an income tax -- Congress shall have power" : the sixteenth amendment is launched -- "It will lighten the burdens of the poor" : the sixteenth amendment is ratified -- "Here at last was fruition" : the income tax is enacted -- "What did we do, what did we do" : Woodrow Wilson raises revenue for an impending war -- dawn of a day of righteousness" : the income tax, the Great War and the counterreaction.
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