Journalist James Bovard has written a series of remarkable political books and articles that have knocked the props out from under some of the biggest government policy frauds of our times.

His articles have appeared in some of the nation's most distinguished magazines and newspapers, including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, Washington Post, New Republic, Reader's Digest and many more.

Bovard is an Associate Policy Analyst at the Cato Institute. He writes a hard-hitting column each month in the Future of Freedom Foundation Foundation's excellent publication Freedom Daily.

Books:
The Farm Fiasco (1989) -- a devastating analysis of the waste, fraud, and corruption in U.S. agricultural policy.
The Fair Trade Fraud (1991) -- disproves the phony arguments for "fair trade" and makes the case for free trade.

Lost Rights: The Destruction of American Liberty (1994) -- an amazing, horrifying, outrageous, and, yes, entertaining look at how government is destroying the Bill of Rights and erecting a police state in America. Considered by many to be Bovard's best book to date. Crammed with hundreds of unbelievable stories, all documented, this book packs a wallop.

Shakedown: How the Government Screws You from A to Z (1995) -- like Lost Rights, but shorter. Yet more outrageous, fully documented tales of run-amok government. Like the back cover says: "If it wasn't so scary, you'd laugh."

Quotable

"Americans' liberty is perishing beneath the constant growth of government power. Federal, state and local government's are confiscating citizens' property, trampling their rights, and decimating their opportunities more than ever before.... American liberty can still be rescued from the encroachments of government. The first step to saving our liberty is to realize how much we have already lost, how we lost it, and how we will continue to lose unless fundamental political changes occur." -- Lost Rights.
"We owe it to ourselves and to our children to stand up and reclaim the liberty that once made this nation revered around the world." -- Shakedown