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Adams, Charles. For Good and Evil: The Impact of Taxes on the Course of Civilization. 2nd. ed. Madison, 1999, 2001. The impact of taxation on societies from biblical Israel to contemporary America.

Brownlee, W. Elliot. Federal Taxation in America: A Short History. Cambridge University Press, 1996. Describes the crises that led to federal taxation.

Graetz, Michael J. The Decline (and Fall?) of the Income Tax. Norton, 1997. A chronicle of the recent history of the American tax system.

Internal Revenue Service. Your Federal Income Tax. U.S. Government Printing Office, Annual guide aids in preparation of income tax forms.

Slemrod, Joel, and Jon M. Bakija Taxing Ourselves: A Citizen's Guide to the Great Debate Over Tax Reform. 2nd ed. MIT Press, 2000. The current plans and controversies in the national debate on tax reform; written for general readers.

Weisman, Steven R. The Great Tax Wars: From Lincoln to T.R. to Wilson, How the Income Tax Transformed America. Simon & Schuster, 2002. Entertaining history of the battles behind the enactment of the U.S. income tax.