Kelsey M. Wagner

The Oklahoma Problem

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How a forgotten tax law hollowed out rural communities — and how to fix it

A book in progress

Cover of The Oklahoma Problem by Kelsey Wagner

The book

What it argues

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Your words — two or three paragraphs, under 200 words What the book argues, why it matters now, and what makes you the person writing it. An acquiring editor reads this before anything else, so lead with the argument rather than the history: the tax mechanism, what it did to the counties, and what you propose. Optional — one line on the reporting Books like this are bought partly on the strength of the research. One sentence on primary sources, the constitutional record, county-level data, interviews.

The author

Kelsey M. Wagner

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Journalism

Selected work

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Enquiries

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