Robert A. Becker
Revolution, Reform and the Politics of American Taxation, 1763-1783.
Every time I drop by my advisor's to let him know how my research is going, he throws another book at me..."Here, include this too."
Ironic though, how we rebelled from Britain over taxes, and over the course of the Revolution, taxes increased at least 15 times over what they had been before, and, by screwing the poor out of fair representation and the use of regressive taxes, the wealthy managed to put the lionshare of the tax burden onto the "poor and middling" classes.
Not much has changed in 230 years.