The Limits of Symbolic Reform : The New Deal and Taxation, 1933-1939 Book

Acknowledgments; Introduction: political imagery and financial reality; Part I. Prelude to Reform: The New Deal Tax System. 1933–1935: 1. Taxing the forgotten man; 2. The Congressional origins of soak-the-rich taxation; Part II. One Part Revenue, Two Parts Rhetoric: The Reform Impulse in the Ascendant, 1935–1937: 3. The paradox of symbolic reform: enacting a wealth tax without sharing the wealth; 4. Before the fall: New Deal tax reform, 1936–1937; Part III. New Deal Taxation under Siege, 1937–1939: 5. The recession cometh; 6. New Deal taxation and the business community, 1937–1939; 7. The unkindest cuts of all: tax legislation in 1938 and 1939; 8. Taxation, symbolic politics, and the New Deal legacy; Index.