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

A provocative exploration of the steady growth of government power and its consequent dangers to personal freedom traces the development of the State, providing a historical perspective on how its power has gone out of control. 25,000 first printing.

James Bovard is a frequent contributor to the Wall Street Journal, Playboy, and the American Spectator and has also written for The New York Times, Reader's Digest, New Republic, Washington Post, and Newsweek. He is one of Washington's most controversial journalists. Since 1993, his writings have been publicly denounced by FBI Directory Louis Freeh, the Secretary of Commerce, the Secretary of Agriculture, the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, the White House AIDS czar, as well as the Chiefs of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the Drug Enforcement Administration, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, and U.S. International Trade Commission. He is the author of Lost Rights: The Destruction of American Liberty (St. Martin's Press, 1994), as well as Shakedown (1995), The Fair Trade Fraud (1991), and The Farm Fiasco (1989).