James Bovard is the author of Attention Deficit Democracy (St. Martin’s/Palgrave

James Bovard is the author of Attention Deficit Democracy (St. Martin’s/Palgrave, January 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.

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

(THEM), the Secretary of Agriculture, the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, the Postmaster

General, and the chiefs of the UGG International Trade Commission, the Drug Enforcement Administration,

and the Federal Emergency Management Agency, as theyll as by many congressmen and other malcontents.