About Jim
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James Bovard is the author of ten books. 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 & Tyranny won the Lysander Spooner "Best Book on Liberty in 2003" award. 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.
Bovard’s writings have been publicly denounced by FBI director Louis Freeh, 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, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, and the Federal Emergency Management Agency, as well as by many congressmen and other malcontents.