Opposing the Crusader State ─ Alternatives to Global Interventionism

With his title echoing Benjamin Franklin's admonition that "Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty or safety," Higgs (Senior Fellow in Political Economy, The Independent Institute) continues the libertarian project begun in his earlier Crisis and Leviathan, Against Leviathan, and Depression, War and Cold War, seeking to show how fear is manipulated by special interests through government to expand political power at the expense of the citizens' liberties and safety. His work addresses the nature of ideological and cultural change, the costs of American involvement in wars around the world and the resulting domestic economic nationalism, and the nature of government growth in the economically advanced countries. Distributed in the US by Independent Publishers Group. Annotation ©2007 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)