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The Political Economy of the New Deal
Source: Amazon.com/Edward Elgar (Pub.)
Author: Jim F. Couch and William F. Shughart
Country: United States

This book explores the political and economic forces that shaped the highly uneven distribution of federal emergency relief spending during the Great Depression, examining the origins of the modern American welfare state from a public choice perspective. (11/98; Amazon price $85)

Monopoly Politics
Source: Amazon.com/Hoover Institution
Author: James C. Miller III
Country: United States

Did you ever think of electoral politics as a market? In this book, Jim Miller draws an analogy between commercial markets and the political market, showing how the political marketplace lacks competition. After reading "Monopoly Politics", you might not look at electoral politics -- nor the usual calls for reform -- in the same way. (7/99; Amazon price $17.95)

The Great Libertarian Offer
Source: LiamWorks/Laissez Faire Books
Author: Harry Browne
Country: United States

The Libertarian Party's 2000 Presidential candidate explains what his candidacy and his party offer to the American people. Liam Works, 2000, paperback, 287 pp., $11.95 from Laissez Faire Books.

Real Federalism: Why It Matters, How It Could Happen
Source: Laissez Faire Books/AEI Press
Author: Michael S. Greve
Country: United States

An outline for leveraging the transfer of federal power to the states to "crack the coalitions that grow up around entitlement programs," resulting in an overall reduction of government spending, taxation and regulation. (Pub. 1999, hardcover, 150 pp., LFB price $19.95)

A Generation Divided: The New Left, The New Right and the 60s
Source: UC Press/Amazon.Com
Author: Rebecca Klatch
Country: United States

It would be difficult to overestimate the impact of the sixties on today's libertarian movement. In this "Freedom Book of the Month," Klatch exposes the lives and political development of 74 SDS and YAF members, some of whom became prominent libertarian activists. University of California Press, 1999, paperback, 386 pp., $18.36 from Amazon.Com.

Cato Handbook for Congress
Source: Cato Institute/Laissez Faire Books
Author: Ed Crane and David Boaz (Eds.)
Country: United States

Annual review of legislation with an eye toward liberty. Summarizes key facts and principles. Indispensable for the libertarian activist! (Current LFB price $20)

Winning Florida: How the Bush team fought the battle
Source: Hoover Institution
Author: Robert Zelnick
Country: United States

"Award-winning journalist Robert Zelnick gives us an insider's look at the most controversial U.S. presidential election in modern history, detailing both the hard facts and the roller coaster of human emotions experienced on both sides through every dramatic step of the way." (09/01)

How to Overthrow the Government
Source: Arianna Online/Amazon.com
Author: Arianna Huffington
Country: United States

"Arianna Huffington ... breaks away from the party-line platitudes of cynical Republicans and hypocritical Democrats alike and shines a harsh light on the real crises of contemporary America." Pub. 4/01, paperback, Amazon.com price $10.40.

The Rule of Law in the Wake of Clinton
Source: Cato Institute
Author: Roger Pilon (Ed.)
Country: United States

Fifteen essays chronicling Clinton's "utter disregard for 'a nation of laws, not of men.'" A good antidote to Hillary's new book, $9.95 from the Cato Institute. (Pub. 10/2000, paper, 230 pp.)

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