Lobbyists and the Making of US Tariff Policy, 1816?1861

The first book-length study of lobbying prior to the Civil War.

Since the 2008 global economic crisis, historians have embraced the challenge of making visible the invisible hand of the market. This renewed interest in the politics of political economy makes it all the more timely to remind ourselves that debates over free trade and protection were just as controversial in the early United States as they have once again become, and that lobbying, then as now, played an important part in Linc...