"Mr. Taxpayer versus Mr. Tax Spender": Taxpayers' Associations, Pocketbook Politics, and the Law during the Great Depression

"Traces the interplay of politics and law in the American taxpayers' association movement of the 1930s and those movements' lasting impact, showing how the Great Depression transformed organized taxpayer activity in the United States and that taxpayers' associations in turn transformed the nature and form of state and local governments"--