Lost Rights: The Destruction of American Liberty
by James Bovard
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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 show more 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. show lessTags
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I haven't finished the book. It's good, but I can't read too much of it or I get upset & feel helpless about all that has happened.
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James Bovard is a journalist who has written for the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, and many other publications. He lives in Rockville, Maryland
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- Genres
- Politics and Government, Nonfiction, General Nonfiction, History
- DDC/MDS
- 323.0973 — Social sciences Political science Civil and political rights Civil Rights Biography And History North America United States
- LCC
- JC599 .U5 .B598 — Political Science Political theory Political theory. The state. Theories of the state Purpose, functions, and relations of the state
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- English
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