American Decades
I'm Mad as Hell: The Exclusive Story of the Tax Revolt and Its Leader
Memoir
By: Howard Jarvis with Robert Pack
Date: 1979
Source: Jarvis, Howard, with Robert Pack. I'm Mad as Hell: The Exclusive Story of the Tax Revolt and Its Leader. New York: Times Books, 1979, 4–10, 12–13.
About the Author: Howard Jarvis (1902–1986) was a successful businessman with careers as the owner of a Utahbased newspaper chain and numerous manufacturing businesses in California. Always active in Republican Party affairs, Jarvis devoted himself full-time to politics in the last decades of his life, particularly on the issue of reducing corporate and personal taxes. After several tries to get a property-tax reduction initiative on the California ballot, Jarvis succeeded in putting Proposition 13 before the voters in June 1978. The effort made Jarvis a national spokesman on the issue of taxation.
Introduction
In the 1960s, federal and state...
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1970's Government and Politics Primary Sources
- The End of the Vietnam War
- Law and Order
- "Presidential Speech Announcing Acceptance of an Invitation to Visit the People's Republic of China"
- A Thaw in the Cold War
- Dark Days in the White House
- "Text of Address by McGovern Accepting the Democratic Presidential Nomination"
- From Victor to Vanquished
- The Boys on the Bus
- Why Not the Best
- "Is America Turning Right?"
- "Foreign Affairs: The Need for Leadership"
- Harvard Hates America: The Odyssey of a Born-Again American
- A National Malaise
- I'm Mad as Hell: The Exclusive Story of the Tax Revolt and Its Leader
- Yellow Ribbon: The Secret Journal of Bruce Laingen
- Copyright Page
- Acknowledgments
