ISIL Freedom Network: United States > Books > Libertarianism
- 25 years at the Cato Institute: The 2001 Annual Report
Source: The Cato Institute
Country: United States
- "This beautiful 116-page photo book tells the story of the Cato Institute's first 25 years, along with a detailed review (including financial reports) of the year 2001." (05/02)
- The Quest for Cosmic Justice
Source: Laissez Faire Books/Free Press
Author: Thomas Sowell
Country: United States
- Sowell defends rule of law and equal rights against egalitarianism and attempts at equal outcomes. (Hardback, 1999, 224 p., Laissez Faire price $17.50)
- The Vision of the Anointed: Self-Congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy
Source: Laissez Faire Books/Basic Books
Author: Thomas Sowell
Country: United States
- An empirical study in which the liberal mindset -- and the policies spawned by it -- are confronted with the nasty fact of why and how it has failed (Hardback, 1995, 320 p., Laissez Faire price $14.95).
- Is Reality Optional? And Other Essays
Source: Laissez Faire Books/Hoover Press
Author: Thomas Sowell
Country: United States
- 86 of Sowell's articles and columns which show why our civilization is imperiled by taxes, welfare, drug prohibition, preferential treatment, economic regulations, compulsory government schooling, Social Security and other massively destructive policies. (Paperback, 1993, 201 p., Laissez Faire price $14.95).
- More Liberty Means Less Government: Our Founders Knew This Well
Source: Laissez Faire Books/Hoover Institution Press
Author: Walter Williams
Country: United States
- Walter Williams challenges the assumptions of the left, on topics including women in the military, minimum wage laws, affirmative action, and the Americans with Disabilities Act. (Paperback, 264 p., Laissez Faire price, $14.95)
- Barbarians Inside the Gates and Other Controversial Essays
Source: Laissez Faire Books/Hoover Institution Press
Author: Thomas Sowell
Country: United States
- Thomas Sowell's essays are brutally honest, and challenge both the left and the right in such areas as American society, economics, politics, race issues, and education. (Paperback, 268 p., Laissez-Faire price, $15.95)
- Toward Liberty: The Idea That Is Changing the World
Source: Cato Institute/Laissez Faire Books
Author: David Boaz
Country: United States
- "In this book are some of the people and ideas associated with the Cato Institute in its first 25 years. Karl Popper on the failure of communism, Peter Bauer on economic development, Helen Suzman on the end of apartheid, F. A. Hayek on money and information, Milton Friedman on markets in China, ... " (04/02)
- America's 30 Years War
Source: Regnery/Amazon.com
Author: Balint Vazsonyi
Country: United States
- A Hungarian-born historian affirms bedrock American principles: "The recipe is not that we restore conditions as they existed in 1776," he says, "but that we resume living by the rule of law (as opposed to the rule of lawmakers)..." Regnery 1998, hardcover, 285 p., $24.95 from Amazon.
- Thomas Sowell: A Personal Odyssey
Source: Free Press/Laissez Faire Books
Author: Thomas Sowell
Country: United States
- "A Personal Odyssey is not only a story of the life of one of my dearest friends," says Walter Williams. "It's also a story about one of the principal sources of the greatness of America: Just because you know where a person ended up in life is no guarantee you can be sure about where he started." Free Press 2000, hardcover, 308 pp., $17.50 from Laissez Faire Books.
- Cliches of Politics
Source: Foundation for Economic Education/Amazon.com
Author: Spangler
Country: United States
- A collection of short essays, each of which focuses on a cliché and identifies the flaw, illogic, or immorality of the saying. (Paperback, pub. 1994, $14.95 at Amazon.com)
- Morality and Work
Source: Hoover Institution Press/Amazon.com
Author: Tibor Machan
Country: United States
- The special ethical dimensions of work are examined. Contributors offer controversial alternatives to conventional ways of understanding the labor market. Their proposals take a fiercely individualistic viewpoint toward many sacred cows. (Pub. 8/2000; 136 pp. paperback; Amazon price $13.56)
- The Irrepressible Rothbard
Source: Ludwig von Mises Institute
Country: United States
- "These lively essays display ... Rothbard the journalist, cultural critic, political observer, and movement organizer. Even more remarkable, they represent just a fraction of what he wrote in his spare time, for just one publication, and in just the last few years of his life." 431pp, $29.00 (2000)
- Gran'pa Jack #8
Source: JPFO
Country: United States
- "Is America Becoming a Police State" is the topic of this latest Gran'pa Jack booklet. Discounts available for bulk orders.
- Terrorism and Tyranny
Source: LFB/Palgrave
Author: James Bovard
Country: United States
- Yet another hard-core, relentless, disturbing masterpiece of the state's abuse of power by one of the best libertarian journalists around. (Pub. 9/03; hardcover; 448 pp.)
- 'Hope' is on the way!
Source: JPFO
Country: United States
- The new collaboration by L. Neil Smith and Aaron Zelman, available at pre-publication rates. A book about what the future could be, with a lot of hard work and focused energy, and the right combination of social evolution and good fortune? (06/22/01)
- The Ballad of Carl Drega
Source: Mountain Media/Laissez Faire Books
Author: Vin Suprynowicz
Country: United States
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- More powerful stuff from the best libertarian journalist alive! The book continues in the tradition of "Send in the Waco Killers", covering new ground and giving us more reasons to fight the state. Freedom Book of the Month, May 2002. (Pub. 5/02, trade paper, 684 pp., Amazon price $24.95)
- The Transfer Society: Economic Expenditures on Transfer Activity
Source: The Cato Institute
Author: David N. Laband and George C. McClintock
Country: United States
- "Laband and McClintock present a more complete picture of the effects of forced transfers than one would get from merely considering the aggregates of federal and state budgets or estimates of the amounts of wealth that change hands through the various forms of 'freelance' redistribution, such as insurance fraud, theft, or extortion." (11/01)
- Liberty and Democracy
Source: Hoover Institution/Amazon.com
Author: Tibor R. Machan (Ed.)
Country: United States
- Contributors grapple with the issue of the proper role of democracy in a society that is committed to respecting and protecting the individual rights of all members. They challenge conventional thinking, offering an assortment of perceptive and provocative ideas on democracy and individual freedom. (Pub. 10/02; 126 pp.; Amazon price $10.50)
- The Shadows of Babylon
Source: Amer House/Amazon.com
Author: Julie Daube
Country: United States
- A gripping, apocalyptic novel depicting the takeover of the U.S. by ... ostensibly the UN, but what's driving the one-world-government movement? (Pub. 5/02, 514 pp., trade paper, Amazon price $29.95)
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