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 | REVIEWS ADVANCE PRAISE "The scariest thing about the creeping authoritarianism of What's Good For You is how few people notice it anymore. David Harsanyi notices it, thank God, and has written a terrific reminder of why, if they can force you to wear your seatbelt, they can force you to do just about anything. Buy this book. You'll laugh, you'll cry, you may wind up voting Libertarian." "The average American has little idea just how many liberties have been lost through the growth of the Leviathan. Increasingly there's a regulation, the need to get permission, and the outright banning of ordinary activities that have always been seen as personal and private. David Harsanyi gives us a detailed script of this ugly process. He is more than generous by titling this egregious attack on our liberties as the 'Nanny State.'" "This is a dangerous book—mostly because if it falls into the hands of legislators or city councils, they'll find new ideas for things to ban or mandate. But for sensible people, it's a wake-up call about the efforts of busybodies on both left and right to nitpick every aspect of our lives, from what we eat and drink to what we watch on television to what games our children can play." REVIEWS AND MENTIONS "This is not just a rant against overzealous legislators but a thoughtful look at how the government is overreaching into everyday life and how Americans are quietly going along with it. An interesting look at freedom and personal responsibility." "David Harsanyi makes a frightening case for the dangers of big government, and a strong argument that less government is better government." "An important book ... which I recommend strongly." "In wide-ranging and engagingly written chapters ... Harsanyi argues that preserving life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness means giving individuals more choices in how to live, not fewer." "Denver Post columnist Harsanyi delivers a podium-thumping screed against micromanaging, moralizing busybodies from both sides of the political divide." "Nanny State ... is written in the casual, irreverent tone of a biting newspaper column, putting the author's incredulous outrage on display throughout." "Few grasp this new paradigm quite as well as Denver Post columnist David Harsanyi, whose wonderful, essential new book, Nanny State ... provides not only perhaps the authoritative account of the bipartisan conspiracy to institute a "low-grade, feel-good tyranny that has downgraded freedom to a mere annoyance," but also one of the most stirring battle cries for a "second American Revolution" to counter it." "Harsanyi's libertarian opus makes the case that government meddling in private lives demands our full attention." "...a bevy of funny examples of government gone wrong." "Harsanyi has thrown a conservative-libertarian rope around a disturbing political and cultural trend ..." "This book is one long, wonderful rant, exactly the kind of purgative we need to cleanse our systems of the poison of Puritanism that is infecting us. " "The government really doesn't have the right to tell you what to do, provided you are respecting the rights of others ... If you agree with the sentiments expressed in this post, you should read David Harsanyi's new and forceful Nanny State. " "... Harsanyi is less a doctrinaire right-winger than an instinctive libertarian who's willing to gore sacred cows on either side of the ideological fence." "...an amusingly cantankerous protest." "Whether or not one agrees with Harsanyi, he has tapped into something many Americans feel on a gut level." "A scathing indictment ..." "Have you ever thought about what freedom is? It is simply the freedom to make your own decisions without outside interference. If you choose to smoke, drink and gamble, you should be free to do so. If you can't, then you aren't free. There is an excellent book on this topic. The title is Nanny State ..."
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