Organized by subject, from Affirmative Action to Zoning Laws, a funny but chastening compendium offers absurd and outrageous examples of government ineptitude and intrusion on ordinary Americans' lives, liberties, and property rights. Reprint.

Shakedown: How the Government Screws You from A to Z

Humor & Entertainment

Bovard, James

Humor

Penguin??Books

The Fair Trade Fraud is a direct attack on US trade policies and on the principle of political control of trade. James Bovard exposed the political and moral core of protectionism, demonstrating that politicians cannot make trade more fair by making it less free.

The Fair Trade Fraud: How Congress Pillages the Consumer and Decimates American Competitiveness

Business & Money

Economics

St.Martin's Press

St. Martin's: Griffin

Lost Rights: The Destruction of American Liberty

From Justice Department officials seizing people's homes based on mere rumors to the IRS and its master plan to prohibit the nation's self-employed from working for themselves to the perpetrators of the Waco siege, government officials are tearing the Bill of Rights to pieces. Today's citizen is now more likely than ever to violate some unknown law or regulation and be placed at the mercy of an administrator or politician hungering for publicity. Unfortunately, the only way many government agencies can measure their "public service" is by the number of citizens they harass, hinder, restrain, or jail. James Bovard's Lost Rights provides a highly entertaining analysis of the bloated excess of government and the plight of contemporary Americans beaten into submission by a horrible parody of the Founding Fathers' dream.

Constitutional Law

PALGRAVE~MACMILLAN

From Justice Department officials seizing people's homes based on mere rumors to the IRS and its master plan to prohibit the nation's self-employed from working for themselves to the perpetrators of the Waco siege, government officials are tearing the Bill of Rights to pieces. Today's citizen is now more likely than ever to violate some unknown law or regulation and be placed at the mercy of an administrator or politician hungering for publicity. Unfortunately, the only way many government agencies can measure their "public service" is by the number of citizens they harass, hinder, restrain, or jail. 
James Bovard's Lost Rights provides a highly entertaining analysis of the bloated excess of government and the plight of contemporary Americans beaten into submission by a horrible parody of the Founding Fathers' dream.

A provocative exploration of the steady growth of government power and its consequent dangers to personal freedom traces the development of the State, providing a historical perspective on how its power has gone out of control. 25,000 first printing.

Freedom in Chains : The Rise of the State and the Demise of the Citizen

Politics & Social Sciences

Politics & Government

Governments are bigger and more powerful than ever, while a citizen's ability to control his or her own life has never been less effective. Bovard shows how the State threatens to destroy the individual in order to preserve the belief that any government is superior to the citizen. Bovard asks how we got to this point and answers with a thoughtful look at the history of governmental control from ancient times to the present, peppered throughout with observations on our present day, out of control governmental regulatory commissions and all-confiscating IRS.

Freedom in Chains: The Rise of the State and the Demise of the Citizen

Right-wing libertarian columnist Bovard reveals Bill Clinton as the next best thing to Adolf Hitler in his threat to American freedom. From the "Green iron fist" of environmental policy to the "plundering and blundering" IRS, it seems that it's a miracle we can still breathe. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Feeling Your Pain: The Explosion and Abuse of Government Power in the Clinton-Gore Years

Social Sciences

St Martins Pr

James Bovard is no fan of Big Government in the US and under the Clinton-Gore administration. In his new book, Bovard looks at Clinton and Gore's record on such abuses and absurdities as taxes, gun control, the Waco fiasco, AmeriCorps, and federal funding of every program from those dealing with disaster relief to those that put on puppet shows in Northern California. He looks at Hillary Clinton's informal role in the government, as well as Newt Gingrich's poor stewardship of the Republican party in its quest for a leaner federal government. In the style that made Lost Rights a classic, Bovard takes us on a sentimental journey through the last eight years. It's a trip no one will want to miss.

Palgrave Macmillan Trade

A well-known conservative writer offers an alphabetic list of intrusive, excessive, and absurd government legislation, from disability lawsuits to environmental catch-22's to Affirmative Action quotas. 25,000 first printing.

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Shakedown: How the Government Screws You from A to Z

The Fair Trade Fraud: How Congress Pillages the Consumer and Decimates American Competitiveness

The Fair Trade Fraud: How Congress Pillages the Consumer and Decimates American Competitiveness

Lost Rights: The Destruction of American Liberty

Lost Rights: The Destruction of American Liberty

Freedom in Chains : The Rise of the State and the Demise of the Citizen

Freedom in Chains: The Rise of the State and the Demise of the Citizen

Feeling Your Pain: The Explosion and Abuse of Government Power in the Clinton-Gore Years

Feeling Your Pain: The Explosion and Abuse of Government Power in the Clinton-Gore Years

Shakedown: How the Government Screws You from A to Z