Author: Donald L. Barlett
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Keywords: taxes, pays, really, america
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 1994-03-23
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0671871579
ISBN-13: 9780671871574

American: Who Really Pays the Taxes? is a disturbing, eye-opening look at a tax system gone out of control. Originally designed to spread the cost of government fairly, our tax code has turned into a gold mine of loopholes and giveaways manipulated by the influential and wealthy for their own benefit.If you feel as if the tax laws are rigged against the average taxpayer, you’re right: -- Middle-income taxpayers pick up a growing share of the nation’s tax bill, while our most profitable corporations pay little or nothing.-- Your tax status is effected more by how many lawyers and lo

Authors:Donald L. Barlett, James B. Steele,
Publisher: University of California Pre
Keywords: tax, fairness, destroying, costing, killing, income, avoidance, dodge, spiraling, fraud, american
Number of Pages: 302
Published: 2002-09-02
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0520236106
ISBN-13: 9780520236103

It’s often said there’s nothing certain in life except death and taxes. According to two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalists Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele, however, the latter part of that adage is now decidedly in dispute. The Great American Tax Dodge, the pair’s latest examination of U.S. systems gone awry, spells out exactly how massive tax fraud is currently costing the nation enough to provide health care for its 44 million uninsured citizens--and precisely why the problem will continue to grow at virtually all economic levels unless remedial me

Authors:Donald L. Barlett, James B. Steele,
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Keywords: howard, hughes, madness, legend, life, empire
Number of Pages: 687
Published: 1981-01
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0393000257
ISBN-13: 9780393000252

Howard Hughes lived one of the greatest, most heroic, misunderstood, mysterious, bizarre, and tragic lives in American history. In this brilliantly documented biography, the mythology that surrounded that life is disentangled from the truth. Hughes had always been different. Certainly his riches set him apart, but he was also tough. Orphaned and a millionaire at eighteen, Hughes repudiated his relatives, seized control of the Hughes Tool Company, the linchpin of his fortune, and went on to become a flamboyant movie producer, holder of many world aviation records, principal owner of Trans Worl

Authors:Donald L. Barlett, James B. Steele,
Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing
Keywords: dream, stole, america
Number of Pages: 276
Published: 1996-06-01
List price: $10.95
ISBN-10: 0836213149
ISBN-13: 9780836213140

The Pulitzer Prize-winning authors of America: What Went Wrong? examine public policies in trade, taxes, employment, and education that have reduced the economic fortunes and expectations of America’s beleaguered middle class. Original. 100,000 first printing.

Authors:Donald L. Barlett, James B. Steele,
Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing
Keywords: wrong, america
Number of Pages: 252
Published: 1992-01-01
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0836270010
ISBN-13: 9780836270013

Asking the question, "what went wrong," two Pulitzer Prize-winning authors present a sweeping critique of the last two decades of American history, concluding that short-sighted greed in business and government has undermined the American dream. Original.

Authors:Donald L. Barlett, James B. Steele,
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Keywords: madness, life, hughes, howard
Number of Pages: 688
Published: 2004-09-17
List price: $18.95
ISBN-10: 0393326020
ISBN-13: 9780393326024

The life that inspired the major motion picture The Aviator, starring Leonardo DiCaprio and directed by Martin Scorsese.Howard Hughes has always fascinated the public with his mixture of secrecy, dashing lifestyle, and reclusiveness. This is the book that breaks through the image to get at the man. Originally published under the title Empire: The Life, Legend, and Madness of Howard Hughes. 80 photographs

Author: Barlett C. Jones
Publisher: University Press of America
Keywords: triumphs, flawed
Number of Pages: 190
Published: 1996-06-04
List price: $45.50
ISBN-10: 076180319X
ISBN-13: 9780761803195

As the only systematic investigation of his tenure, this book offers a sympathethic assessment of Andrew Young’s performance as U.S. representative to the UN (1977-1979). Labeled by his critics as "New Left", a "preacher" and a "loose cannon", he is here portrayed more accurately as an American imperialist and chauvinist who wished to export our products, democracy, free enterprise, and civil rights revolution to the rest of the world. This book seeks to correct the many factual errors in published works and presents Young’s style in relation to his achievements. The book begins wi