Their Fair Share

Taxing the Rich in the Age of FDR

Joseph J. Thorndike

Joseph J. Thorndike's history of the U.S. federal tax system from the 1920s until the end of World War II might feel familiar: the president with a progressive reputation who proves more pragmatic than his ardent supporters hoped, the legislators who serve the media apoplectic rhetoric, the magnates who pay no income tax and defend themselves with the perfectly true argument that doing so is 100 percent legal, and the public interested seeing everyone pay their fair share. Thorndike mines governmental and popular media archives to explore both the scholarship of taxes and the way we feel about paying them.

Their Fair Share

Taxing the Rich in the Age of FDR

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Joseph J. Thorndike's history of the U.S. federal tax system from the 1920s until the end of World War II might feel familiar: the president with a progressive reputation who proves more pragmatic than his ardent supporters hoped, the legislators who serve the media apoplectic rhetoric, the magnates who pay no income tax and defend themselves with the perfectly true argument that doing so is 100 percent legal, and the public interested seeing everyone pay their fair share. Thorndike mines governmental and popular media archives to explore both the scholarship of taxes and the way we feel about paying them.

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Rowman & Littlefield Publishers / Urban Institute

Pages: 350 • Trim: 6 x 9

978-0-87766-771-1 • Paperback • January 2013 • $47.00 • (£36.00)

Series: Urban Institute Press

Subjects: Political Science / Public Policy / City Planning & Urban Development

Their Fair Share

Taxing the Rich in the Age of FDR

Joseph J. Thorndike

Their Fair Share

Taxing the Rich in the Age of FDR

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