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Freedom in Chains - The Rise of the State and the Demise of the Citizen
Freedom in Chains - The Rise of the State and the Demise of the Citizen 

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Governments and bureaucracies are bigger and more controlling every year. Today's citizen has less ability to control his or her own life than ever before. How did we get to this point? James Bovard, bestselling author of Lost Rights, shows how the State has become a juggernaut that threatens to destroy the individual. Public policy today is permeated by "Statism" - the belief that the government is inherently superior to the citizenry, that progress consists of extending the realm of governmental compulsion, and that vesting more arbitrary power in government officials will eventually make citizens happy. Reading through the history of the State and its war on the citizen, Bovard looks at thinkers as diverse as John Locke, Etienne de la Boetie, James Madison, and G. W. F. Hegel. He explores the original idea of the State; the corruption of the concept of freedom; how the rising number of government dependants is subverting democracy; and the ultimate fraud that is perpetrated as the State's benevolence. In these times of the Leviathan State, Freedom in Chains is a must read for everyone who took James Bovard's Lost Rights to heart, as well as for anyone trying to understand how government power has transformed formerly self-reliant Americans into wards of the State.

Bovard shows how the State threatens to destroy the individual in order to preserve the belief that any government is superior to the citizen. Bovard asks how we got to this point and answers with a thoughtful look at the history of governmental control from ancient times to the present, peppered throughout with observations on our present day, out of control governmental regulatory commissions and all-confiscating IRS.

From Library Journal:
This author comes highly touted by the mainstream conservative press, and with good reason. Bovard, a journalist best known for his influential Lost Rights: The Destruction of American Liberty, sets forth a passionate indictment of the state's coercive powers over the people. He is especially critical of the "Peter Pan" theory of good government and other political illusions fostered by the state. Bovard reviews 200 years of political philosophy and makes effective use of extreme examples of government programs and regulations to drive home his essential message.

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Author James Bovard
ISBN# 0-312-22967-4
Type Quality Paperback
Year 1999 (2000 paperback edition)
Pages 340
Illustrated no
Base Cost 8.50
Price: $11.95

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