The wealth of a nation: a history of trade politics in America

Introduction : The battle in Seattle and Adam Smith

Part one : From Hamilton to Smoot-Hawley : the rise and fall of the US protectionist system. "A genuine American system"

Crisis, compromise, and free trade in the Jacksonian democracy

Civil War and robber barons

The gilded age of protectionism

Trade reform in the progressive era

The roaring twenties and the path to Smoot-Hawley

Part two : Transformation : the creation of the liberal economic order. FDR and Cordell Hull

The brain trust

The dawn of the multilateral trading system

The Anglo-American special relationship

The postwar Atlantic Alliance

The birth of GATT

The Havana Charter

Part three : The survival of the system. A new economic order?

Labor's love is lost

Advancing worker rights beyond the WTO

Conclusion : Donald Trump, the forgotten man, and the liberal economic order