Farm Fiasco [Hardcover]

James Bovard (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 356 pages
• Publisher: Ics Pr (September 1989)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1558150013
• ISBN-13: 978-1558150010
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.4 x 1.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #511,036 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

James Bovard is the author of Attention Deficit Democracy (St. Martin's/Palgrave, 2006), and eight other books. He has written for the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, New Republic, Reader's Digest, and many other publications. His books have been translated into Spanish, Arabic, Japanese, and Korean. He is a contributing editor for the American Conservative and a frequent contributor to Freedom Daily.

The Wall Street Journal called Bovard 'the roving inspector general of the modern state,' and Washington Post columnist George Will called him a 'one-man truth squad.' His 1994 book Lost Rights: The Destruction of American Liberty received the Free Press Association's Mencken Award as Book of the Year. His Terrorism and Tyranny won the Lysander Spooner Award for the Best Book on Liberty in 2003. He received the Thomas Szasz Award for Civil Liberties work, awarded by the Center for Independent Thought, and the Freedom Fund Award from the Firearms Civil Rights Defense Fund of the National Rifle Association.

His writings have been been publicly denounced by the chief of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Secretary of Agriculture, the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, the Postmaster General, and the chiefs of the U.S. International Trade Commission, the Drug Enforcement Administration, and the Federal Emergency Management Agency, as well as by many congressmen and other malcontents.

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A must-read, March 2, 2009

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This review is from: The Farm Fiasco (Paperback)

This book lays out in detail the history, and the basic *fiasco* (which it is) leading up to today's farm outlays in each years farm bills. The pork that goes to each industry is enormous, and wasteful, and is laid out in this book. Even though this book was written a while ago, it still speaks to today, being that we are still paying scads of money for outlays to farms that are raking in large amounts of money, not "the family farm" as some try to portray.

3 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Well written polemic, February 5, 2005

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A_2007_reader (Vladivostok, Russia) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Farm Fiasco (Paperback)

This, along with the Free Trade fiasco book, are two of this authors finest books and written in an over-the-top, bombastic, but shockingly accurate way.

Learn how the government wastes $100 billion a year, which is about 1000 bucks for each 'hard' taxpayer out there.