{"product_id":"taxing-america-wilbur-d-mills-congress-and-the-state-1945-1975-paperback-9780521795449","title":"Taxing America; Wilbur D. Mills, Congress, and the State, 1945–1975 (Paperback) 9780521795449","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eTaxing America\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eWilbur D. Mills, Congress, and the State, 1945–1975\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis book examines Wilbur D. Mills' role in shaping the national tax agenda 1958–74.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJulian E. Zelizer (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521795449, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback, published 13 November 2000\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e402 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.3 cm, 0.59 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e'… a provocative study of congressional politics from the end of World War II to the early 1970s … an essential read for anyone interested [in] the development of the post-war American state … this volume is a valuable tool in understanding the rapid growth of the United States in the nineteenth century … will be unavoidable for any serious scholar of the period.' Business History\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eTaxing America, first published in 1999, offers an 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 negotiating between the tax policy community and Congress. Taxing America lays out four innovative arguments about the expansion of the state during the postwar period; Congress played a crucial role in the institutionalization of the state after World War II, policy communities helped encourage policymaking, taxation was central to postwar liberalism and its domestic agenda, and a fragile alliance between influential fiscal conservatives and the state was instrumental in expanding support of the policies of the tax community.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e 1. Introduction\u003cbr\u003e Part I. Learning the Ways and Means: 2. An Arkansas traveler comes to Washington\u003cbr\u003e 3. 'Where is the money coming from?'\u003cbr\u003e 4. 'Taxation of whom and for what?'\u003cbr\u003e 5. The legislative mills, 1958–61\u003cbr\u003e 6. The postwar fiscal discourse\u003cbr\u003e Part II. The Politics of Policy: 7. The road to tax reduction\u003cbr\u003e 8. Bringing Medicare into the State\u003cbr\u003e 9. The war on inflation\u003cbr\u003e 10. Spending through taxes\u003cbr\u003e 11. Expanding social security: inflation and social insurance, 1969–70\u003cbr\u003e Part III. Conclusion: 12. 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