About the Editors
Joseph J. Thorndike is director of the Tax History Project at Tax Analysts and a contributing editor for Tax Notes magazine. His recent publications include articles on the Civil War income tax, the history of Internal Revenue Service reform, and the tax ideology of Franklin Roosevelt. He is currently writing a history of federal taxation during the Great Depression and World War II.
Dennis J. Ventry Jr. is the Lawrence Lederman/Milbank Tweed Fellow in Law and Business at the New York University School of Law and associate director of the Tax History Project at Tax Analysts. He was previously a research fellow at the Brookings Institution and a visiting fellow at Harvard University. He has published and lectured on various tax issues, including the earned income tax credit, negative income taxation, the estate and gift tax, family taxation, and the tax expenditure budget. He is currently completing a study of the treatment of marriage under the U.S. federal income tax.
