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The Tax Reform Act of 1986 was the single most sweeping change in the history of America's income tax. It was also the best political and economic story of its time. Here, in the anecdotal style of The Making of the President, two Wall Street Journal reporters provide the first complete... read more
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Characters/People edit
- Bob Packwood: Add a description of this character.
- Dan Rostenkowski
- Darman
- Baker
- Bill Bradley
- Regan
- Ronald Reagan
- Brockway
- Pearlman
- Dole
- Diefenderfer
- O'neill
- Kemp
- Mondale
- Danforth
- Johnson
- Gephardt
- Bentsen
- Russo
- Moynihan
- Flippo
- Chafee
- Rothstein
- Lott
- Walker
- Mitchell
- Carter
- Metzenbaum
- Mc Lure
- D'amato
- John Duncan
- Michel
- Kriegel
- Downey
- Matsui
- Mcintyre
- Weiss
- Pryor
- Cuomo
- Mr. Chairman
- Mcgrath
- Armstrong
- Thompson
- Kennedy
Setting & Locations edit
- White House
- Washington
- New York City
- Texas
- Chicago
- California
- America
- Oregon
- Capitol Hill
- United States
- Georgia
- New Jersey
- Louisiana
- Missouri
- Wall Street
- Illinois
- Alaska
- Maine
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- Tokyo
- Rhode Island
- Long
- Pennsylvania
- Minnesota
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- Tennessee
- Oklahoma
- Wisconsin
- Florida
- Maryland
- Ohio
- Delaware
- Manhattan
- Michigan
- Portland
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First Sentence edit
The clerk will call the roll for final passage . . . It is twenty minutes past midnight on the morning of Wednesday, May 7, 1986, and the Senate Finance Committee has been working almost nonstop since early the previous morning.
Authors & Contributors edit
- Jeffrey H. Birnbaum (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Random House Inc
Country: USA
Publication Date: 1987
ISBN: 0394560248
Page Count: 331
Publisher: Random House Inc
Country: USA
Publication Date: 1987
ISBN: 0394560248
Page Count: 331
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- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 343.7304
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