Rich People's Movements: Grassroots Campaigns to Untax the One Percent

by Isaac William Martin

Book Overview

On tax day, April 15, 2010, hundreds of thousands of Americans took to the streets with signs demanding lower taxes on the richest one percent. But why? Rich people have plenty of political influence. Why would they need to publicly demonstrate for lower taxes-and why would anyone who wasn't rich join the protest on their behalf?

Isaac William Martin shows that such protests long predate the Tea Party of our own time. Ever since the Sixteenth...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199928991
• ISBN13: 9780199928996
• Release Date: September 2013
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.2" x 9.3"