James Bovard
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James Bovard is a bestselling libertarian author and lecturer, whose political commentary targets examples of governmental waste, failures, and abuses of power.
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] Critical Acclaim
The Wall Street Journal called Bovard "the roving inspector general of the modern state," and Washington Post columnist George Will called him a "one-man truth squad." His 1994 book Lost Rights: The Destruction of American Liberty received the Free Press Association’s Mencken Award as Book of the Year. His Terrorism and Tyranny won the Lysander Spooner Award for the Best Book on Liberty in 2003. He received the Thomas Szasz Award for Civil Liberties work, awarded by the Center for Independent Thought, and the Freedom Fund Award from the Firearms Civil Rights Defense Fund of the National Rifle Association.
[edit] Criticism
His writings have been publicly denounced by the chief of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Secretary of Agriculture, the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, the Postmaster General, and the chiefs of the U.S. International Trade Commission, the Drug Enforcement Administration, and the Federal Emergency Management Agency, as well as by many congressmen.
[edit] Books
- (2006) Attention Deficit Democracy. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 1-4039-7108-0.
- (2004) The Bush Betrayal. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 1-4039-6851-9.
- (2003) Terrorism and Tyranny: Trampling Freedom, Justice, and Peace to Rid the World of Evil. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 1-4039-6682-6.
- (2001) Feeling Your Pain: The Explosion and Abuse of Government Power in the Clinton-Gore Years. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 0-312-24052-X.
- (2000) Freedom in Chains: The Rise of the State and the Demise of the Citizen. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 0-312-22967-4.
- (1996) Shakedown
- (1995) Lost Rights: The Destruction of American Liberty. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 0-312-12333-7.
- (1992) Fair Trade Fraud: How Congress Pillages the Consumer and Decimates American Competitiveness. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 0312083440.
[edit] Quotation
"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)
