Most Favored Nation: The Republican Revisionists and U.S. Tariff Policy, 1897-1912

Most Favored Nation discusses the movement for tariff revision under Republican administrations in the critical years preceding World War I. Paul Wolman shows how and why some Republicans turned away from their party’s — and the nation’s — traditional tariff reduction and revision. Wolman describes how the revisionists of this period developed a comprehensive program that sought to replace the “logrolling” system of protectionist interest trading that had prevailed in the United States sinc...