4013. The Tariff History of the United States Seventh Edition, by F. W. Taussig, LL.B., Ph.D. (read 21 Apr 2005) This book is often listed in bibliographies of histories and since I own it I thought I would read it. Taussig was an economics professor at Harvard from 1892 to 1935. He is not admiratory of protective tariffs in many cases, so he tends to look with more favor on the Democratic tariff bills than on the Republican ones. The book (this edition was published in 1923) has a lot of numerical detail which often made it a dry book, but the author sounded knowledgeable. For years the tariff was the principal topic of political dispute--nice to have had such less than vital things to dispute about in contrast to today's issues. ( )