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

A 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...