Shelley Peterson Davis

(1956- ) born at Lincoln. Historian, author, became historian for U.S. Government for 17 years, co-authoring two books for the U.S. Air Force and one for the Internal Revenue Service, served as the first historian for the IRS from 1988 to 1995, noted for publishing an expose of corrupt IRS practices titled Unbridled Power: Inside the Secret Culture of the IRS (Harper, 1997). Consult Lincoln Journal Star, December 16, 1995, pp. A-1, A-5 and Barron's, December 23, 1996, pp. 29-33 and Omaha World Herald, April 15, 1998, p. 10 and Contemporary Authors, Vol 161 (Gale, 1998) 97-98.

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