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

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.