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Showdown at Gucci Gulch: Lawmakers, Lobbyists, and the Unlikely Triumph of Tax Reform by Alan Murray

2.0

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Blow-by-blow account of the battle for the 1986 Reagan tax reform bill. Yes, there’s a whole book on that. WSJ reporters are adept at enlivening dry topics, but how much do you really wanna read about taxes? Fun when sketching the Congressional cast—the cerebral Bill Bradley, the biting Bob Dole, the blustery Dan Rostenkowski. Less fun when fixated on capital gains & municipal bonds. Published in 1987, only a year after the bill passed. Maybe that immediacy once gave the story a jolt. The thrill is gone.