Dedication
To my parents, Rangvald and Doris Beito, with admiration and affection
Acknowledgments


Introduction


1. Tax Resistance: Origins and Development

Origins and Development

2. Chicago: Portrait of a “Tax Racket”


3. Taxpayers on Strike in Chicago


4. Breaking the Chicago Tax Strike


5. Selling the State: The National Pay Your Taxes Campaign


Bankers and Reformers
6. Selling the State through Radio: “You and Your Government”


7. The Doldrums Set In: The Decline of the Tax Revolt

The Decline of the Tax Revolt
