Research Catalog

Title

Taxing America : Wilbur D. Mills, Congress, and the state, 1945-1975 / Julian E. Zelizer.

Author

Zelizer, Julian E.

Publication

Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1998.

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Details

Description

xv, 384 p.; 24 cm.

Summary

Taxing America offers a new interpretation of the American state between 1945 and 1975 by tracing the career of Wilbur D. Mills, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee from 1958 to 1974. Blending methodological insights from history, political science, and sociology, Julian Zelizer provides one of the first comparative histories of income taxation, Social Security, and Medicare in this study of the crucial role Mills played in the national tax agenda as he negotiated between the tax policy community and Congress.

Subject

• Mills, Wilbur D. 1909-1992
• United States. Committee on Ways and Means > History
• Taxation > United States > History

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction: Building a State in America -- Challenges and Obstacles -- Shaping the Policy Agenda -- 1. An Arkansas Traveler Comes to Washington -- 2. "Where is the Money Coming From?" -- 3. "Taxation of Whom and for What?" -- 4. The Legislative Mills, 1958-1961 -- 5. The Postwar Fiscal Discourse -- 6. The Road to Tax Reduction -- 7. Bringing Medicare into the State -- 8. The War on Inflation -- 9. Spending through Taxes -- 10. Expanding Social Security -- 11. Looking Backward and Forward.

ISBN

0521621666 (hardback)

LCCN

^^^98021974^

OCLC

39189867

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library