Trump is reviving a tariff strategy from America’s ‘Gilded Age’. It didn’t end well last time
- Written by Garritt C. Van Dyk, Senior Lecturer in History, University of Waikato
Getty ImagesA White House fact sheet about Donald Trump’s recently announced “Fair and Reciprocal Plan” on trade described it as “the art of the international deal” – a reference to Trump’s 1987 business book, The Art of the Deal.
It was a classic piece of self-marketing from the president, but whether his...
