William K. Bolt – författare

Before the Civil War, the American people did not have to worry about a federal tax collector coming to their door. The reason why was the tariff, taxing foreign goods and imports on arrival in the United States. Tariff Wars and the Politics of Jacksonian America attempts to show why the tariff was an important part of the national narrative in the antebellum period. The debates in Congress over the tariff were acrimonious, with pitched arguments between politicians, interest groups, newspapers, and a broader electorate.The spreading of democracy caused by the tariff evoked bitter sectional controversy among Americans. Northerners claimed they needed a tariff to protect their industries and also their wages. Southerners alleged the tariff forced them to buy goods at increased prices. Having lost the argument against the tariff on its merits, in the 1820s, southerners began to argue the Constitution did not allow Congress to enact a protective tariff. In this fight, we see increased tensions between northerners and southerners in the decades before the Civil War began.As Tariff Wars reveals, this struggle spawned a controversy that placed the nation on a path that would lead to the early morning hours of Charleston Harbor in April of 1861.

Before the Civil War, the American people did not have to worry about a federal tax collector coming to their door. The reason why was the tariff, taxing foreign goods and imports on arrival in the United States. Tariff Wars and the Politics of Jacksonian America attempts to show why the tariff was an important part of the national narrative in the antebellum period. The debates in Congress over the tariff were acrimonious, with pitched arguments between politicians, interest groups, newspapers, and a broader electorate.The spreading of democracy caused by the tariff evoked bitter sectional controversy among Americans. Northerners claimed they needed a tariff to protect their industries and also their wages. Southerners alleged the tariff forced them to buy goods at increased prices. Having lost the argument against the tariff on its merits, in the 1820s, southerners began to argue the Constitution did not allow Congress to enact a protective tariff. In this fight, we see increased tensions between northerners and southerners in the decades before the Civil War began.As Tariff Wars reveals, this struggle spawned a controversy that placed the nation on a path that would lead to the early morning hours of Charleston Harbor in April of 1861.

This book offers the most comprehensive study yet of the history behind impeachment in the United States, considering its use against presidents, judges, justices, and members of the cabinet.Although the Founding Fathers intended for the impeachment of federal officials to take place rarely, and only for the most egregious instances of malfeasance, calls for impeaching members of the U.S. government seem today to be almost routine. Presenting their arguments in a manner engaging to laypersons and specialists alike, authors Bolt and Kaufman describe the precolonial and colonial origins of impeachment in the United States, how the Founding Fathers intended for the process of impeachment to occur, the changes that have taken place to that process since the country’s founding, and why one hears the word “impeachment” used so often at present. Incorporating dozens of cases, including many that are oftentimes forgotten, this book demonstrates that partisanship is not new when it comes to trying to remove federal officers from their post and that unseating those officers via impeachment proceedings has proven very difficult.Accessibly written and featuring a number of primary source documents and tools for student learning, Impeachment in U.S History is ideal for students of American history and American political history in particular.