"A brilliant, wide-ranging collection of essays on liberty."
-Martin Anderson, Hoover Institution"A fundamental challenge to those who still believe politics as usual should be the center of our lives. Most important, it shows the compatibility of traditional religious values and radical individualism."
-Richard Dennis
President, Chicago Resource Center
Holding no institution sacred, Bandow provides a comprehensive critical appraisal of the federal government's role in managing the political process. In this collection of columns on the domain of federal control, Bandow shows how the system has been-abused to accommodate private interests and demonstrates that such abuse stems from bureaucrats' failure to make paramount the Founding Fathers' intent to create a government with limited powers. He views the erosion of the original restraints as cause of an unwieldy, inefficient, and unjust federal government.
Bandow contends that government intervention in the market has legitimized an ethic that condones interest groups' manipulating the state to bestow benefit by way of subsides, competitive restrictions and other protectionist measures. His highly accessible critique transcends traditional liberal and conservative boundaries to emphasize individual liberty and skepticism about state power. Published by Transaction Books. Bulk orders should be sent directly to Transaction.
Doug Bandow is a senior fellow at the Cato Institute and a nationally syndicated columnist with Copel News Service. He served as special assistant to President Reagan.
1982/164pp./$3.00 paper ISBN 0-932790-29-1
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