The Fiscal Revolution in America.

STEIN, Herbert. [William Safire].

$475.00

Item Number: 127895

Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1969.

First edition of Stein’s work on the American fiscal revolution of the early 1900s. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “With admiration for a real pro – Bill Safire – and thanks to a cash customer Herb Stein.” The recipient, William Safire was an important American author, columnist, journalist, and presidential speechwriter. He joined Nixon’s campaign for the 1960 Presidential race, and supported him again in 1968. After Nixon’s 1968 victory, Safire served as a speechwriter for him and Spiro Agnew. He authored several political columns in addition to his weekly column “On Language” in The New York Times Magazine from 1979 until the month of his death and authored two books on grammar and linguistics: The New Language of Politics (1968) and what Zimmer called Safire’s “magnum opus,” Safire’s Political Dictionary. Safire later served as a member of the Pulitzer Prize Board from 1995 to 2004 and in 2006 was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President George W. Bush. Fine in a very good dust jacket.

Here, American economist and contributor to The Wall Street Journal Herbert Stein tells the story of the fiscal revolution that took place in America between Herbert Hoover's recommendation of a tax increase in 1931 and John F. Kennedy's recommendation of a tax cut in 1962. Stein tells the story of the fiscal revolution in terms of its leading participants and their thinking and action at critical points in a dramatic, and often humorous account of the intellectual and political life of mid-20th century America.