Jim Rumford

Tobacco, Trusts, and Trump Jim Rumford

If you don't know about the Tobacco Wars, you don't know American history.

In Tobacco, Trusts, and Trump: How America's Forgotten War Created Big Government, Jim Rumford reveals how the United States is headed toward the same turmoil that sparked a bloody war between the working class and the Great Tobacco Trust--and why the Establishment doesn't want you to know about it.

Drawing on one of the largest private collections of Tobacco Wars primary documents and family ties to the conflict, Rumford shows how recent headlines--from the TEA Party to Occupy Wall Street to the election of President Donald J. Trump--echo the events leading up to America's Forgotten War.