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These articles, from A.J. Cook's weekly newspaper column, are entertaining, educational and readable.

From the thousands of tax court cases, Cook selects those with color and human interest. After he converts the legal jargon into readable prose, the case legal becomes a graphic anecdote illustrating complex technical laws.

Other tax columns are so dense with details, readers cannot absorb the rules. Cook breaks up the density with people stories.

These cases show readers what they can do legally by learning what others have tried. No one else reports these cases for newspapers.

His column also covers in easy to understand language, the story behind news items and what taxpayers should know but are not being told.

Cook, now practicing as a tax lawyer, was formerly with the Big-Four CPA firm Ernst & Young as a partner in charge of tax services. He started writing the column in 1983. It is published in newspapers throughout the U.S.