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Author:

Thorndike, Joseph J.

Title:

Their fair share : taxing the rich in the age of FDR / Joseph J. Thorndike.

Publisher:

The Urban Institute Press,

Copyright Date:

2013

Description:

xii, 349 pages ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Taxation--United States--History--20th century.
Tax incidence--United States--History--20th century.
New Deal, 1933-1939.
Roosevelt, Franklin D.--(Franklin Delano),--1882-1945--Political and social views.
United States.--Congress--History--20th century.
Taxation--History--United States--History--20th century.
Social classes--United States--History--20th century.
United States--Economic policy--1933-1945.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-331) and index.

Contents:

A Nation of Taxpayers -- The Republican Roots of New Deal Taxation -- The State Roots of New Deal Taxation -- Early New Deal Taxation and the Moral Status of Tax Avoidance -- New Deal Economists and the Case for Saving the Poor -- New Deal Lawyers and the Case for Soaking the Rich -- Profits, Preferences, and Tax Avoidance -- The Fall and Rise of Progressive Reform -- The Creation of the Mass Income Tax -- Consolidation of the Wartime Regime -- The Durability of Reform.

Summary:

"A history of how President Roosevelt and his cabinet developed the ideas that became the New Deal and how negotiations between the President and the Congress brought to the ideas into legislation"--Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

0877667713 (paper : alk. paper)
9780877667711 (paper : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)810534425

LCCN:

2012045283

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

PQAX094 -- Wartburg College - Vogel Library (Waverly)