James Bovard
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James Bovard (born 1956) is a libertarian author and lecturer whose political commentary targets examples of waste, failures, corruption, cronyism and abuses of power in government. He is the author of Attention Deficit Democracy, and eight other books. He has written for the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, New Republic, Reader's Digest, The American Conservative, and many other publications. His books have been translated into Spanish, Arabic, Japanese, and Korean.
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[edit] Bibliography
- Fair Trade Fraud: How Congress Pillages the Consumer and Decimates American Competitiveness. Palgrave Macmillan. 1992. ISBN 0312083440.
- Lost Rights: The Destruction of American Liberty. Palgrave Macmillan. 1995. ISBN 0-312-12333-7.
- (1996) Shakedown
- Freedom in Chains: The Rise of the State and the Demise of the Citizen. Palgrave Macmillan. 2000. ISBN 0-312-22967-4.
- Feeling Your Pain: The Explosion and Abuse of Government Power in the Clinton-Gore Years. Palgrave Macmillan. 2001. ISBN 0-312-24052-X.
- Terrorism and Tyranny: Trampling Freedom, Justice, and Peace to Rid the World of Evil. Palgrave Macmillan. 2003. ISBN 1-4039-6682-6.
- The Bush Betrayal. Palgrave Macmillan. 2004. ISBN 1-4039-6851-9.
- Attention Deficit Democracy. Palgrave Macmillan. 2006. ISBN 1-4039-7108-0.
[edit] Quotations
- "Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner." ~ Lost Rights: The Destruction of American Liberty (1994)
- "A democratic government that respects no limits on its power is a ticking time bomb, waiting to destroy the rights it was created to protect."[1]
- "Elections are vastly overrated as a means for restraining government abuses."[2]
[edit] References
- ^ [www.jimbovard.com]
- ^ Who's Getting Your Vote?, Reason
