Leviathan: The Growth of Local Government & the Erosion of Liberty (Hoover Institution Press Publication, 531.)

Rating:
Summary: Uneven prosecutor's brief
Review: A lawyer takes local and state government to task. Kinda like a journalist taking the federal government to task (Bovard's books). Both these guys write adversarial briefs, selectively picking and chosing their material to paint a picture. Useful propaganda, since I support zero government (you can privitize everything, including the military, post office, justice, etc).

One example from page 8, which you can check out on-line: Federal expenditures are listed as less than $1 trillion, which is less than state and local expenditures, but in fact federal expenditures are greater than $2 trillion. So how did the author get away with this statistic? Easy. He stripped out "entitlements" like Social Security, Medicare, which account for roughly half of federal expenditures.

This is but one example.

In short: useful propaganda, but nothing more.