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Hoover Institution Press New Rele ases
Death Grip
Loosening the Law’s Stranglehold over
Economic Liberty
Clint Bolick
In an 1873 decision, the Supreme Court by a 5–4 vote—highly un-

usual in those days—upheld a bribery-procured Louisiana slaughter-
house monopoly that had been challenged by a group of butchers
whose businesses were jeopardized. By that decision (called the
Slaughter-House Cases), one of the most important and beneficial
products of the Civil War—a revolutionary constitutional provision
intended to protect civil rights against oppression by state govern-
ments—was nullified. The repercussions of that unfortunate decision
are still being felt today.
Clint Bolick looks at the state of economic liberty in our country and
explains how the consequences of Slaughter-House continue to
manifest themselves to this day. Bolick examines the history and in-
tent of the Fourteenth Amendment and the judicial nullification of the
privileges (or immunities) clause in the Slaughter-House Cases and
their aftermath through the years. Looking at more-recent decisions,
March 2011, 88 pages
he sees hope in the current campaign to restore economic liberty
ISBN: 978-0-8179-1314-4 as a fundamental civil right. Armed with knowledge, passion, and
$19.95 cloth commitment to principle, he concludes, we can win the battle to
restore economic liberty once and for all.
Law/Constitution
In Death Grip, Clint Bolick masterfully explains why a
100-plus-year-old Supreme Court case provides the context
for some of the most important constitutional issues of our day.
Combining history and current controversies, along with con-
stitutional theory and real-world litigation experience, Death
Grip is an essential read for those interested in all of the rights
guaranteed by the Constitution.
— Scott Bullock, senior attorney at the
Institute for Justice and lead attorney in
Kelo v. City of New London
Clint Bolick is a research fellow at the Hoover Institution and also

serves as the director of the Goldwater Institute Scharf-Norton
Center for Constitutional Litigation in Phoenix. He has written many
books, including Leviathan: The Growth of Local Government and
the Erosion of Liberty (2004) and David’s Hammer: The Case for an
Activist Judiciary (2007).
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The End of Modern History

in the Middle East
Bernard Lewis
With the ending of global strategic confrontation between su-

perpowers, those in the Middle East must adjust to new realities,
accepting final responsibility for their own affairs, making and
recognizing their mistakes, and accepting the consequences. In The
End of Modern History in the Middle East, Bernard Lewis discusses
the future of the region in this new, postimperialist era. For each and
every country and for the region as a whole, he explains, there is a
range of alternative futures: at one end, cooperation and progress;
at the other, a vicious cycle of poverty and ignorance.
The author examines in detail the issues most critical to the region’s
future. He describes oil as the current, most important export to the
outside world from the Middle East but warns that technology will
eventually make it obsolete, leaving those who depend solely on oil
revenues with a bleak future. The three factors that could most help
transform the Middle East, according to Lewis, are Turkey, Israel,
and women. He also argues that there is enough in the traditional
ISBN: 978-0-8179-1294-9 culture of Islam on the one hand and the modern experience of the
$19.95 cloth Muslim peoples on the other to provide the basis for an advance
toward freedom in the true sense of that word and to achieve the
History/Middle East social, cultural, and scientific changes necessary to bring the Middle
East into line with the developed countries of both West and East.
Bernard Lewis is the Cleveland E. Dodge Professor of Near Eastern

Studies Emeritus at Princeton University. A widely read expert on the
Middle East, he is regarded as one of the West’s leading scholars
on the region. He has published numerous books, among them
Islam: The Religion and the People, coauthored with Buntzie Ellis
Churchill.
For a complete list of books, visit www.hooverpress.org 5

Freedom Betrayed
Herbert Hoover’s Secret History of the
Second World War and Its Aftermath
Edited by George H. Nash
The culmination of an extraordinary literary project that Herbert

Hoover launched during World War II, his Magnum Opus—be-
ing published at last nearly fifty years after its completion—offers
a revisionist reexamination of the war and its cold war aftermath,
and a sweeping indictment of the “lost statesmanship” of Franklin
Roosevelt. Freedom Betrayed: Herbert Hoover’s Secret History of
the Second World War and Its Aftermath originated as a volume
of Hoover’s memoirs, a book initially focused on his battle against
President Roosevelt’s foreign policies before Pearl Harbor. As time
went on, however, Hoover widened his scope to include Roosevelt’s
foreign policies during the war, as well as the war’s consequences:
the expansion of the Soviet empire at war’s end and the eruption of
the cold war against the Communists.
On issue after issue, Hoover raises crucial questions that continue

to be debated to this day. Did Franklin Roosevelt deceitfully ma-
June 2011, ca. 920 pages
neuver the United States into an undeclared and unconstitutional
ISBN: 978-0-8179-1234-5 naval war with Germany in 1941? Did he unnecessarily appease
$49.95 cloth Joseph Stalin at the pivotal Tehran conference in 1943? Did com-
munist agents and sympathizers in the White House, Department of
History/Military State, and Department of the Treasury play a malign role in some
of America’s wartime decisions? Hoover raises numerous arguments
that challenge us to think again about our past. Whether or not one
ultimately accepts his arguments, the exercise of confronting them
will be worthwhile to all.
Herbert Hoover (1874–1964) was president of the United States

from 1929 to 1933. An internationally acclaimed humanitarian,
he was the author of more than thirty books and the founder of the
Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace.
Geoorge H. Nash is a historian, lecturer, and authority on the life of

Herbert Hoover. His publications include three volumes of a defini-
tive scholarly biography of Hoover and the monograph Herbert
Hoover and Stanford University, as well as numerous articles in
scholarly and popular journals. A specialist in twentieth-century
political and intellectual history, Nash is also the author of The
Conservative Intellectual Movement in America since 1945.

Healthy, Wealthy, and Wise

Five Steps to a Better Health Care System
Second Edition
John F. Cogan, R. Glenn Hubbard, and Daniel P. Kessler
Health care in the United States has made remarkable advances

during the past forty years. Yet our health care system has several
well-known problems: high costs, significant numbers of people
without insurance, and glaring gaps in quality and efficiency—and
the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 is not the
answer. This second edition of Healthy, Wealthy, and Wise details
a better approach, offering fundamental reform alternatives centering
on tax changes, insurance market changes, and redesigning Medi-
care and Medicaid.
The book proposes five specific reforms to improve the ability of

markets to create a lower-cost, higher-quality health care system
that is responsive to the needs of individuals, including increasing
individual involvement, deregulating insurance markets and redesign-
ing Medicare and Medicaid, improving availability and quality of
March 2011, ca. 152 pages
information, enhancing competition, and reforming the malpractice
system. The authors show that, by promoting cost-conscious behavior
ISBN: 978-0-8179-1064-8 and competition in both private markets and government programs
$19.95 cloth such as Medicare and Medicaid, we can slow the rate of growth
of health care costs, expand access to high-quality health care, and
Business & Economics/Free Enterprise slow down runaway spending.
John F. Cogan is the Leonard and Shirley Ely Senior Fellow at the
Hoover Institution, Stanford University.
R. Glenn Hubbard is dean of the Columbia University Graduate

School of Business, the Russell L. Carson Professor of Finance and
Economics, and a professor of economics. He is also a research
associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and a visit-
ing scholar at the American Enterprise Institute.
Daniel P. Kessler is a professor of economics, law, and policy at the

Stanford University Graduate School of Business; a senior fellow at
the Hoover Institution, Stanford University; and a research associate
at the National Bureau of Economic Research.

Living with the UN

American Responsibilities and International Order
Kenneth Anderson
What exactly is the United Nations? For that matter, why is there still a
United Nations at all? In Living with the UN, international legal scholar
Kenneth Anderson analyzes US-UN relations in each major aspect of the
UN’s work—security, human rights and universal values, and develop-
ment—and addresses the crucial questions of whether, when, and how
the United States should engage or not engage with the United Nations
in its many different organs and activities. He looks at each UN organ
and function and suggests the form of engagement that the United States
should take toward it, giving workable, pragmatic meaning to “multilat-
eral engagement” across the full range of the UN’s work.
Cutting through the “alphabet soup” of UN agencies as well as the

utopian idealism that, however noble, often clouds analyses of the
United Nations, the book offers principles for a permanent US-UN
relationship based on ideals and interests between the United States
May 2011, ca. 250 pages
and the United Nations—and provides guidance for long-term US policy
that runs far beyond the Obama administration’s tenure. Ultimately, Living
ISBN: 978-0-8179-1344-1 with the UN offers a vision of a better, but also more modest, United
$19.95 cloth Nations—a vision unlikely to be realized but well worth presenting.
Political Science/Government
Kenneth Anderson is a professor of international law at Washington
College of Law, American University, Washington, DC, and a visiting
fellow at the Hoover Institution, where he is also a member of the Hoover
Task Force on National Security and Law. He specializes in international
law, human rights, and the laws of war, as well as international business
law, international development, and not-for-profit law.

Pension Wise
Confronting Employer Pension Underfunding—
And Sparing Taxpayers the Next Bailout
Charles Blahous
America’s insurance system for single-employer pension plans,

operated by the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC), is
under serious financial strain. In Pension Wise: Confronting Employer
Pension Underfunding—And Sparing Taxpayers the Next Bailout,
Charles Blahous, one of the nation’s foremost retirement security
experts, explains the origins and dangers of current underfunding
in our single-employer defined-benefit pension system and offers
principles to underlie a solution.
Blahous details both the technical reasons behind pension plan

underfunding and the political considerations that prioritize the near-
term financial demands of employers and pension beneficiaries over
the long-term fiscal health of the pension insurance system. The author
also presents the fundamental value judgments concerning who should
bear the cost of filling the PBGC shortfall and to what extent the risk
January 2011, 90 pages
of financing pension benefits should continue to be shifted away from
plan sponsors, either to other employers or to taxpayers at large.
ISBN: 978-0-8179-1214-7 Although acknowledging that there are no obviously correct answers,
$19.95 cloth he suggests a range of reforms to improve the pension insurance
system’s operation and to resolve its projected shortfall.
Business & Economics/
Corporate Finance
Charles Blahous, one of the nation’s foremost retirement security
experts, serves as one of two public trustees for the Social Security
and Medicare programs. Blahous served as deputy director of
President George W. Bush’s National Economic Council and, before
that, as executive director of the president’s bipartisan Social Security
Commission and as special assistant for economic policy. He recently
wrote Social Security: The Unfinished Work (2010).

Race & Economics

How Much Can Be Blamed on Discrimination?
Walter E. Williams
Walter E. Williams applies an economic analysis to the problems

black Americans have faced in the past and still face in the present
to show that free-market resource allocation, as opposed to political
allocation, is in the best interests of minorities. Contrasting the fea-
tures of market resource allocation with those of the political arena,
he explains how, in the political arena, minorities cannot realize a
particular preference unless they win the will of the majority. In the
market, he shows, there is a sort of parity (nonexistent in the political
arena) in which one person’s dollar has the same power as the next
person’s.
Williams debunks many common labor market myths and reveals

how the minimum wage law has imposed incalculable harm on the
most disadvantaged members of our society. He explains that the
real problem is that people are not so much underpaid as under-
skilled and that the real task is to help unskilled people become
April 2011, ca. 174 pages
skilled. The author also reveals how licensing and regulation reduce
ISBN: 978-0-8179-1244-4 economic opportunities, especially for those who might be de-
$24.95 cloth scribed as discriminated against and having little political clout. Us-
ISBN: 978-0-8179-1245-1 ing the examples of the taxi cab and trucking industries before and
$14.95 paper after deregulation, Williams illustrates how government regulation
closes entry and reinforces economic handicaps, whereas deregula-
Business & Economics/Free Enterprise tion has not only helped minorities enter industries in greater numbers
but also benefited consumers.
Walter E. Williams is the John M. Olin Distinguished Professor of

Economics at George Mason University and a nationally syndicated
columnist. He is the author of several books and more than sixty arti-
cles that have appeared in such scholarly journals such as Economic
Inquiry, American Economic Review, and Social Science Quarterly
and popular publications such as Reader’s Digest, Regulation, Policy
Review, and Newsweek.

Tests, Testing, and Genuine School Reform

Herbert J. Walberg
The pressing need to improve achievement in American schools is

widely recognized. In Tests, Testing, and Genuine School Reform,
Herbert J. Walberg draws on scientific studies of tests and their uses
to inform citizens, educators, and policy makers about well-established
principles of testing, current problems, and promising evidence-based
solutions. He explains the central considerations in developing and
evaluating good tests and tells how tests can best be used, covering
such topics as using tests for student incentives, paying teachers for
performance, and using tests in efforts to attain new state and
national standards.
To minimize mistaken policies and practices, the author also describes

testing technology to enable readers to evaluate and make better use
of tests. And because valid tests cannot be developed without clear,
specific standards, one chapter is devoted to standards and how they
should determine the plans and development of tests and testing. In
May 2011, ca. 90 pages
view of the continuing technical and political problems of tests and
ISBN: 978-0-8179-1354-0 testing, the last chapter argues that, for accountability, improvement of
$19.95 cloth tests and testing, and fraud prevention, the development, administra-
tion, scoring, and reporting of test results should be conducted inde-
Education/Testing & Measurement pendent of traditional school authorities.
Herbert J. Walberg is a distinguished visiting fellow at the Hoover

Institution at Stanford University and a project investigator at the
Vanderbilt University National Center on School Choice. Renowned
throughout the world for his expertise on education policy and prac-
tice, Walberg has written and edited more than sixty-five books
and published some 350 articles on education and exceptional human
accomplishments. His recent publications include the book Advancing
Student Achievement (2010).

Trial of a Thousand Years

World Order and Islamism
Charles Hill
“A Muslim has no nationality except his religious beliefs,” said

Egyptian Sayyid Qutb, a key figure in the world of political Islam
who was executed by the secular regime in his homeland in 1966.
For decades, the ideologues of pan-Islam have refused to accept
the boundaries and the responsibilities of the order of states. In Trial
of a Thousand Years, Charles Hill analyzes the long war of Islamism
against the international state system. Hill places the Islamists in
their proper historical place, showing that they are but the latest
challenge to the requirements that states have placed on themselves
since the international system was born in 1648.
The author describes the many wars on world order over the
modern centuries—the French Revolution and Napoleonic Wars,
World Wars I and II, the cold war—and gives a unique historical
perspective to the Islamic challenge of the twenty-first century in
Iran, Afghanistan, and beyond. He concludes that America must
May 2010, 182 pages
not give up its values; neither should we retreat by declaring that
ISBN: 978-0-8179-1324-3 we will practice them only at home or by telling ourselves that our
$19.95 cloth values are no more worthy than any others selected at random from
among the world’s many cultures. The first step, he says, is to rec-
Political Science/Political ognize the problem and then try to develop ways to deal with the
Freedom & Security exploitation of asymmetries by the enemies of world order.
Charles Hill, a career minister in the US Foreign Service, is a

research fellow at the Hoover Institution. Hill was executive aide
to former US secretary of state George P. Shultz (1985–89) and
served as special consultant on policy to the secretary-general of the
United Nations from 1992 to 1996. He is also the Brady-Johnson
Distinguished Fellow in Grand Strategy and senior lecturer in inter-
national studies and in humanities at Yale University.

The Wave
Man, God, and the Ballot Box in the
Middle East
Reuel Marc Gerecht
The promise of democracy for Muslims offers something historically

unparalleled. But how powerful is the idea of democracy in the
Middle East? Could the region actually be at the beginning of a
democratic wave, or is a “democratic recession” under way in
Islamic lands? In The Wave, Middle East expert Reuel Marc Gerecht
argues that the Middle East may actually be at the beginning of a
momentous democratic wave whose convulsions could become the
region’s defining theme during Obama’s presidency. He describes
the powerful Middle Eastern democratic movements coming from
both the secular left and the religious right and asserts that America
must reassess democracy’s supposed lack of a future in the region.
The author explains the importance of those countries that hold

the keys to the success or failure of democracy in the region, most
notably Egypt, Turkey, Iran, and the United States. He tells why
mainstream Islamist groups today see elections, not revolution, as a
means for society to maintain akhlaq: the mores that define good
ISBN: 978-0-8179-1334-2 Muslims. And he shows why any legitimate form of government in
$19.95 cloth the contemporary Arab Middle East must be seen to be comple-
mentary to the Prophet Muhammad’s legacy and the Holy Law. If
Political Science/Political Ideologies democracy is to succeed in Arab lands, Gerecht concludes, it will
be because devout Arabs have decided that their faith and repre-
sentative government can meld.
Reuel Marc Gerecht is a senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense

of Democracies. He is a former director of the Project for the New
American Century’s Middle East Initiative and a former resident
fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. Gerecht also served as a
Middle East specialist in the Clandestine Service at the Central Intel-
ligence Agency. He has authored many articles and books, includ-
ing The Islamic Paradox: Shiite Clerics, Sunni Fundamentalists, and
the Coming of Arab Democracy (2004).

Hoover Institution Press Previously Announce d Titles
My Times & Life

A Historian’s Progress through a
Contentious Age
Morton Keller
In My Times and Life, Morton Keller recounts his “not extraordinary

life played out in quite extraordinary times”—from the Great Depres-
sion through World War II, the cold war, the sixties, and 9/11. A
classic American saga of respectable achievement from relatively
humble origins, his life through eight-plus decades as a solid,
unequivocal, dues-paying member of the middle class resonates
beyond the individual to echo the experiences, the beliefs, and the
values of his generation.
Set against the backdrop of ever-tumultuous events in the world at

large, Keller describes his parents’ early life, his childhood in Brook-
lyn, and his education at the University of Rochester and at Harvard.
He recounts his academic career at North Carolina, Penn, Harvard,
Oxford, and Brandeis and the scholarly work that made him one
of the nation’s leading political historians. He tells of his marriage
of nearly sixty years, his reflections on dealing with the baby boom
December 2010, 162 pages
generation in the 1960s and 1970s, and his more sedate mode
ISBN: 978-0-8179-1184-3 of existence in the inner-directed 1980s and 1990s. Although born
$19.95 cloth too late to be part of the great generation that fought and won
World War II, and born too early to be part of the boomer genera-
Biography & Autobiography/ tion, Keller nevertheless spent a fascinating life riding the wave of
Personal Memoirs social change that transformed American life during the second half
of the twentieth century.
Morton Keller is a professor emeritus in history at Brandeis Univer-

sity and a legal and political historian. His most recent books are
America’s Three Regimes: A New Political History and The Unbear-
able Heaviness of Governing: The Obama Administration in Histori-
cal Perspective.

Corn Ethanol
Who Pays? Who Benefits?
Ken G. Glozer
In this in-depth, fact-based evaluation, Ken G. Glozer provides a

detailed political history of how the United States ended up with
the current federal corn ethanol policy. Part I relates the significant
external events that have driven the politics that in turn has driven
the policy since 1977. He answers important questions about when
the policy started, how it evolved, the major political and market
forces that drove it, and, most important, who the key officials were
that formed and shaped the policy.
Part II contains an objective, in-depth evaluation of the major claims

made by those who have advocated the ethanol policies during the
past thirty years. Glozer uses his analytic policy evaluation skills,
honed during his twenty-six years with the White House Office of
Management and Budget, to probe how well the ethanol policy
has worked compared to the claims made by two presidents, three
federal agencies, ethanol producers, and the corn and soybean
April 2011, 256 pages
growers.
ISBN: 978-0-8179-4961-7
$19.95 cloth The author presents the results of an evaluation of the Renewalable
Fuels Standard, which was first enacted in 1975, then doubled,
Business & Economics/Industries to a mandatory 15 billion gallons of corn ethanol blended into
the nation’s gasoline supplies. His surprising finding—that federal
ethanol policy has little to do with energy and everything to do
with wealth transfer—is particularly compelling because, after three
decades of federal subsidies, trade protection, and, most recently,
mandated ethanol blending, ethanol remains uneconomical. Also,
according to the Department of Energy’s Energy Information Admin-
istration, ethanol never has and never will have a significant impact
on petroleum imports compared to what could be achieved under
a competitive market policy. Glozer’s sobering conclusion is that the
taxpayers and consumers are the victims of the current policy in that
they have no choice but to pay and pay.
Ken G. Glozer is currently president of OMB Professionals, a

Washington, DC–based energy consulting firm. He was a senior
executive service career professional with the White House Office
of Management and Budget in the energy, environment, and
agriculture arena for twenty-six years.

Reforming America’s
Health Care System
The Flawed Vision of ObamaCare
Edited by Scott W. Atlas, M.D.
Amid much controversy in March 2010, Congress passed President

Barack Obama’s sweeping legislation to fundamentally transform
America’s health care system in the Patient Protection and Affordable
Care Act. In Reforming America’s Health Care System, health policy
experts from the United States, Canada, and Western Europe discuss
both what to expect from the recent health reform legislation and
alternatives that should still be considered. They offer critical apprais-
als of numerous aspects of the new law, looking at the individual
mandate to buy insurance, the threats to medical innovation, the
reduction of choice to consumers, and the complexities of medical
malpractice reform. In addition they examine lessons learned from
state health reforms, the Canadian government’s control of access to
care, and Western European governments oversight of comparative
effectiveness.
The contributors stress that, although government can be a positive

October 2010, 182 pages
piece of the health care puzzle by facilitating competitive markets, it
ISBN: 978-0-8179-1274-1 is the marketplace that can provide more choices, better care, higher
$19.95 cloth quality, and cost based on value. Innovation, they argue, comes
from the private sector, not government, and there is no reason that
Political Science/Political the health insurance industry would be an exception. If Congress
Freedom & Security enacts reforms that remove artificial barriers and constructively open
markets to competition, private-sector creativity will generate innova-
tive, low-cost insurance products for tens of millions of consumers and
facilitate innovations in medical care that have been the linchpin of
improved health care during the past several decades. Such genuine
reforms would bring down the cost of insurance, reduce the number
of uninsured, increase individual choice, and empower Americans to
make value-based decisions for their families.
Scott W. Atlas, M.D., is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, a

professor at the Stanford University Medical Center, and a senior fel-
low at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies.

The Unbearable Heaviness of Governing

The Obama Administration in
Historical Perspective
Morton Keller
We tend to view the character of an administration through the

persona of its president, especially that of Barack Obama, with his
unique baggage of race, personality, political style, and campaign
message of hope and renewal. In this critical look at the realities that
have shaped the first stage of Obama’s presidency, Morton Keller
provides a progress report that rests less on the day-to-day perspec-
tive of pundits and politicians and more on the longer perspective of
history. Keller’s history-focused examination looks at the president’s
developing style of governing, with particular attention to his signa-
ture policies of the stimulus, financial, and health care reforms, and
analyzes the Obama presidency in light of historical analogues,
contemporary political life, and the nature of key government institu-
tions such as Congress and the bureaucracy.
Comparing our presidents with their predecessors is one way to

understand more fully the character and quality of their performance.
October 2010, 188 pages
Keller compares the current president to predecessors such as Wood-
ISBN: 978-0-8179-1264-2 row Wilson, FDR, LBJ, Jimmy Carter, and Bill Clinton and concludes
$19.95 cloth that, as yet, there is no clear consensus on the character or content
of Obama’s presidential leadership or where he fits in the prevail-
Political Science/Government ing typology/classification of America’s chief executives. Taking into
account the general standing of the president, his program, and
his party; the sources of public discontent; and the appeal (or lack
thereof) of the opposition, Keller concludes by speculating on the
future prospects of Obama’s administration in the realms of policy
and politics.
Morton Keller is a professor emeritus of history at Brandeis University.

He has written a number of works on American political and legal
history, among them, America’s Three Regimes: A New Political
History.

Up from the Projects

An Autobiography
Walter E. Williams
Nationally syndicated columnist and prolific author Walter E.

Williams recalls some of the highlights and turning points of his life.
From his lower-middle-class beginnings in a mixed but predominantly
black neighborhood in West Philadelphia to his department chair at
George Mason University, Williams tells an “only in America” story
of a life of achievement.
Williams describes the influences of his early years—such as the

teachers who demanded his best efforts and made no excuses for
him—and tells how his two years in the army became an important
part of his maturation process, despite the racism he encountered.
He recounts his early time getting established in Los Angeles—
getting his BA, going on to grad school at UCLA, and beginning
his teaching career. And he tells how his subsequent move to the
Urban Institute in Washington opened his eyes to how decisions are
really made in DC.
December 2010, 150 pages
ISBN: 978-0-8179-1254-3 When he recounts ultimately accepting his professorship appoint-

$24.95 cloth ment at George Mason University, the author marvels, “I never
thought I’d be working there thirty years later.” And throughout the
ISBN: 978-0-8179-1255-0 book, Willams refers to the immeasurable contribution of his wife of
$14.95 paper forty-eight years, who shared his vision through hard work and love.
Biography & Autobiography/

Personal Memoirs Walter E. Williams is the John M. Olin Distinguished Professor of
Economics at George Mason University and a nationally syndicated
columnist. He is the author of several books and more than sixty
articles that have appeared in scholarly journals such as
Economic Inquiry, American Economic Review, and Social Science
Quarterly and popular publications such as Reader’s Digest,
Regulation, Policy Review, and Newsweek.

Hoover Institution Press Economics
Crony Capitalism and Economic Ending Government Bailouts as

Growth in Latin America We Know Them
Theory and Evidence Edited by Kenneth E. Scott, George P.
Edited by Stephen Haber Shultz, and John B. Taylor
Crony capitalism systems—in which those close This book provides strategies designed to “make
to political policy makers receive favors allowing failure tolerable” and eliminate the bailout
them to earn returns far above-market value— mentality both now and in the future. The distin-
are a fundamental feature of the economies of guished authors also show that it is indeed pos-
Latin America. Haber and his expert contributors sible—and necessary—to explain the causes
draw from case studies in Mexico, Brazil, and of the crisis in understandable terms and clarify
other countries around the world to examine the why resolving the bailout problem is essential to
causes and consequences of cronyism. preventing future crises.
2002, 157 pages 2010, 338 pages

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Hoover Classics Hoover Classics

The Flat Tax Free Markets Under Siege
Updated Second Edition Cartels, Politics, and Social Welfare
Robert E. Hall and Alvin Rabushka Richard A. Epstein
This updated edition of The Flat Tax—called Drawing on his extensive knowledge of history,
“the bible of the flat tax movement” by Forbes— law, and economics, Epstein examines how best
explains what’s wrong with our present tax to regulate the interface between market choice
system and offers a practical alternative. Hall and government intervention—and find a middle
and Rabushka set forth what many believe is way between socialism and libertarianism.
the most fair, efficient, simple, and workable tax
reform plan on the table: tax all income, once 2008, 99 pages
only, at a uniform rate of 19 percent. ISBN: 978-0-8179-4611-1 $14.95 cloth
2007, 228 pages

ISBN: 978-0-8179-9311-5 $14.95 cloth
Getting Off Track Race & Economics

How Government Actions and How Much Can Be Blamed on
Interventions Caused, Prolonged, and Discrimination?
Worsened the Financial Crisis Walter E. Williams
John B. Taylor Williams applies an economic analysis to the
“Taylor offers a powerful rejoinder to the all too problems black Americans have faced in the
pervasive notion that the financial crisis is past and those they face in the present to show
indicative of market failure and therefore that that free-market resource allocation, as
requires a government solution.” opposed to political allocation, is in the best
interests of minorities.
— Jerry Templeton
in Business Economics, the journal of the 2011, ca. 174 pages
National Association of Business Economics
ISBN: 978-0-8179-1244-4 $24.95 cloth
2009, 92 pages ISBN: 978-0-8179-1245-1 $14.95 paper
ISBN: 978-0-8179-4971-6 $14.95 cloth

Hoover Institution Press Economics
Reacting to the Spending Spree The Road Ahead for the Fed
Policy Changes We Can Afford Edited by John D. Ciorciari and
Edited by Terry L. Anderson and John B. Taylor
Richard Sousa The Federal Reserve is the single most important
In Reacting to the Spending Spree a team of economic policy institution in the United States.
expert contributors analyzes the near- and long- Its recent unprecedented actions and interven-
term tions have raised serious concerns in many
implications of efforts by both the Obama and quarters about inflation, as well as the inde-
the Bush administrations to fix the current finan- pendence and effectiveness of the Fed. In The
cial crisis. Road Ahead for the Fed, twelve expert authors
examine the recent actions of the Federal Re-
2009, 162 pages serve and debate key issues on how it can best
ISBN: 978-0-8179-3002-8 $15.00 paper navigate the road ahead.
2009, 229 pages

ISBN: 978-0-8179-5001-9 $19.95 cloth
The Essence of Becker The Essence of Friedman

Edited by Ramón Febrero Edited by Kurt R. Leube
and Pedro S. Schwartz “This invaluable collection of writings by Nobel
This collection of his most important essays “re- laureate Milton Friedman seeks to provide the
prints . . . Becker’s personal overview, compris- essence of his vast and important contributions
ing his Nobel Lecture on the economic way of to public and professional understanding of the
looking at behavior.” conduct of economic policy.”
—Journal of Economic Literature —Far Eastern Economic Review
1995, 720 pages 1987, 566 pages
ISBN: 978-0-8179-9342-9 $25.95 paper ISBN: 978-0-8179-8662-9 $24.95 paper
The Essence of Hayek The Essence of Stigler

Edited by Chiaki Nishiyama and Edited by Kurt R. Leube and
Kurt R. Leube Thomas G. Moore
“A well-edited selection of 21 papers, essays, “Demonstrates the wide scope of Stigler’s
and speeches that reflect the diversity, com- interest, his scholarly brilliance, and his contribu-
plexity, and coherency of Hayek’s system of tions to the development of twentieth-century
thought.” economic thought and policies.”
—Choice —Choice
1984, 419 pages 1986, 377 pages

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Hoover Institution Press New
Education
Rele ase
Advancing Student Achievement Bringing In a New Era in

Herbert J. Walberg Character Education
A renowned educator-psychologist explains Edited by William Damon
how children learn and how family, classroom, The authors provide a unique perspective on
and school practices can help them learn more what is needed to make character education
effectively. In addition to drawing on studies of an effective, lasting part of our educational
learning outcomes, the author reveals economic agenda.
research on teacher education and school
choice that challenges many popular 2002, 194 pages
assumptions. ISBN: 978-0-8179-2962-6 $15.00 paper
2010, 157 pages
ISBN: 978-0-8179-4951-8 $25.00 cloth
ISBN: 978-0-8179-4952-5 $15.00 paper
Charter Schools Against the Odds Courting Failure

Edited by Paul T. Hill How School Finance Lawsuits
Exploit Judges’ Good Intentions and
The expert contributors to this volume tell how
Harm Our Children
state laws and policies have stacked the deck
against charter schools by limiting the number Edited by Eric A. Hanushek
of charter schools allowed in a state, forbidding The expert contributors to this volume assess
for-profit firms from holding charters, forcing them recent court actions in school-adequacy lawsuits
to pay rent out of operating funds, and other and their impact on student outcomes. They
ways. They explain how these policies can be show that simply throwing more resources at the
amended to level the playing field and give problem has not brought about a solution and
charter schools—and the children they serve—a that call for changes should be centered around
fairer chance to succeed. accountability, incentives, and more-informed
parents and policy makers.
2006, 215 pages
ISBN: 978-0-8179-4761-3 $25.00 cloth 2006, 366 pages
ISBN: 978-0-8179-4782-8 $15.00 paper
Education Impostors in the Temple

Assumptions Versus History: A Blueprint for Improving Higher
Collected Papers Education in America
Thomas Sowell Martin Anderson
In the papers collected in Education, Sowell In this hard-hitting book about the decaying
takes a hard look at the state of education moral and intellectual state of US universities
in our schools and universities. His goal is to and colleges today, Anderson shows us how
test the assumptions underlying contemporary serious things have become. More important, he
educational policies and innovations against the offers us dramatic solutions.
historical and contemporary evidence.
1996, 265 pages
1986, 203 pages ISBN: 978-0-8179-9442-6 $18.95 paper
ISBN: 978-0-8179-8112-9 $12.95 paper

Hoover Institution Press Education
Learning as We Go Learning from No Child Left Behind

Why School Choice Is Worth the Wait How and Why the Nation’s Most
Paul T. Hill
Important but Controversial Education
Law Should Be Renewed
The author examines the real-world factors that
can complicate or delay the positive cause-and- John E. Chubb
effect relationships identified by the theories be- Chubb presents a convincing case that, despite
hind school choice. He explains why schools of the controversy it has ignited, the No Child
choice haven’t yet achieved a broader appeal. Left Behind (NCLB) law is making a positive
difference and should be renewed. He outlines
2010, 152 pages ten specific lessons and recommendations that
ISBN: 978-0-8179-1014-3 $19.95 cloth identify the strengths and weaknesses of NCLB
and offers suggestions for improving the law.
2009, 84 pages
ISBN: 978-0-8179-4982-2 $10.00 paper
Our Schools and Our Future Reroute the Preschool Juggernaut

. . . Are We Still at Risk? Chester E. Finn, Jr.
Edited by Paul E. Peterson Prekindergarten is one of the most hotly con-
This book assesses the changes that have oc- tested topics in American education today. In
curred in the twenty years since A Nation at Reroute the Preschool Juggernaut, Finn outlines
Risk, which urged major reforms in American ed- the issues that define and confound this conten-
ucation, was issued by the National Education tious debate: Which children really need it?
Commission. The book offers recommendations Who should provide it—and at whose expense?
based on three core principles—accountability, What’s the right balance between education
choice, and transparency—that can reinvigorate and child care? Where does Head Start fit in?
the system and rekindle America’s confidence in What are reliable markers of quality in pre-
public education. school programs?
2003, 338 pages 2009, 123 pages

ISBN: 978-0-8179-3922-9 $15.00 paper
Tests, Testing, and

Genuine School Reform
Herbert J. Walberg
The author draws on scientific studies of tests
and their use to show how standardized
achievement tests must play a central role in
improving achievement in K–12 schools. He
explains the central considerations in developing
and evaluating tests and tells how tests can best
be used, covering such topics as using tests for
student incentives, paying teachers for perfor-
mance, and the use of tests in efforts to attain
new state and national standards.
2011, ca. 90 pages

ISBN: 978-0-8179-1354-0 $19.95 cloth

Hoover Institution Press Environment and Energy
The California Electricity Crisis The Commons

James L. Sweeney Its Tragedies and Other Follies
“For policymakers and others with a serious Edited by Tibor R. Machan
interest in getting beyond finger-pointing.” The contributors examine the tragedy of the
—Book News commons and what is affected by that tragedy.
What is the proper scope of the public realm?
“This is the book to read to understand what The main insight is that human individuality
happened and why.” needs to be properly accommodated in a
—Cato Institute: Regulation system of community life, in law, and in public
policy.
2002, 291 pages
ISBN: 978-0-8179-2911-4 $25.00 cloth 2000, 126 pages
Corn Ethanol Greener Than Thou

Who Pays? Who Benefits? Are You Really an Environmentalist?
Ken G. Glozer Terry L. Anderson and
The author documents the political history of Laura E. Huggins
federal corn ethanol policy, showing how it has In a powerful argument for free-market envi-
evolved from 1977 through 2008. He then ronmentalism, Anderson and Huggins offer
offers an in-depth, fact-based look at the major pragmatic solutions for improving environmental
assertions made by the advocates of the policy, quality without necessarily increasing red tape.
providing the results of an evaluation of the
claims made by the architects of the Renewal 2008, 147 pages
Fuels Standard in 2005 during its consideration ISBN: 978-0-8179-4851-1 $25.00 cloth
by Congress. ISBN: 978-0-8179-4852-8 $15.00 paper
2011, 256 pages
ISBN: 978-0-8179-4961-7 $19.95 cloth
Political Environmentalism You Have to Admit It’s

Going behind the Green Curtain Getting Better
Edited by Terry L. Anderson From Economic Prosperity
to Environmental Quality
Anderson and his contributors boldly confront
specific environmental laws, asking whether they Edited by Terry L. Anderson
were motivated by environmental or strictly politi-
Contrary to popular belief, economic growth is
cal concerns, whether they achieve their goals,
not the antithesis of environmental quality; rather,
whether they are cost-effective, and whether
the two go hand in hand if the incentives are
they generate effective or perverse results.
right. The authors show how, by developing
and protecting the institutions of freedom rather
2000, 336 pages
than regulating human use of natural resources
ISBN: 978-0-8179-9752-6 $19.95 paper
through political processes, we can have our
environmental cake and eat it too.
2004, 212 pages

ISBN: 978-0-8179-4482-7 $15.00 paper

Hoover Institution Press Foreign Af fairs
Americans and Europeans Hoover Classics

Dancing in the Dark Anti-Americanism in Europe
On Our Differences and Affinities, Our A Cultural Problem
Interests, and Our Habits of Life Russell A. Berman
Dennis L. Bark A revealing look at how, as the process of post–
Bark offers an in-depth examination of the cold war European unification has progressed,
deteriorating relationship between America anti-Americanism has proven to be a useful
and Europe: our differences and similarities, the ideology for the definition of a new European
reasons behind our conflicts, and the future of identity. The author details its elements—some
our alliance. cultural, some irrational—and tells why it is likely
to remain a feature of relations between the
“Those interested in how culture and history United States and Europe for the foreseeable
shape our worldview will be unable to put the future.
book down.”
—Choice
2008, 186 pages
2007, 373 pages ISBN: 978-0-8179-4512-1 $14.95 cloth
ISBN: 978-0-8179-4802-3 $15.00 paper
Discovering the Hidden Listener Freedom or Terror

An Assessment of Radio Liberty and Europe Faces Jihad
Western Broadcasting to the USSR dur- Russell A. Berman
ing the Cold War
In his analysis of Europe’s ambivalence toward
R. Eugene Parta jihadist terror and the spread of aggressive
This overview of the impact of Western radio Islamism, with particular emphasis on the
and Radio Liberty—from the listeners’ perspec- European responses—or lack thereof—to
tive—addresses questions of audience size and Islamist terrorism, Berman describes how some
listening trends over time, demographic traits European countries opt for appeasing and
and attitudes, and more. Based on more than apologizing for terror, whereas others stand up
50,000 interviews with Soviet citizens, the book for freedom.
sheds light on what these broadcasts meant
to listeners as the USSR moved toward a freer 2010, 224 pages
society. ISBN: 978-0-8179-1114-0 $19.95 paper
2007, 116 pages

ISBN: 978-0-8179-4732-3 $15.00 paper
Implications of the Reykjavik Summit Islamic Extremism and

on Its Twentieth Anniversary the War of Ideas
Conference Report Lessons from Indonesia
Edited by Sidney D. Drell and John Hughes
George P. Shultz Hughes examines lessons learned from the practice
Drawn from presentations at the Hoover Institu- of public diplomacy and broadcasting in the cold
tion’s conference on the twentieth anniversary war and tells how the United States could more
of the Reykjavik summit, this collection of essays effectively counter extremism, promote democracy,
examines the legacy of that historic meeting and improve understanding of itself in the Islamic
between Presidents Ronald Reagan and Mikhail world. He offers Indonesia as an example of the
Gorbachev. melding of democracy, Islam, and modernity and
suggests that this country and other nations where
2007, 232 pages Islam and democracy coexist could play a signifi-
ISBN: 978-0-8179-4841-2 $25.00 cloth cant role in helping thwart Islamist extremism.
ISBN: 978-0-8179-4842-9 $15.00 paper
2010, 139 pages
ISBN: 978-0-8179-1164-5 $19.95 cloth

Israel’s Unilateralism Living with the UN

Beyond Gaza American Responsibilities and
Robert Zelnick
International Order
Emmy Award–winning journalist Zelnick exam- Kenneth Anderson
ines Israel’s disengagement from Gaza and International legal scholar Kenneth Anderson ana-
what it might lead to in the future. He details the lyzes US-UN relations in each major aspect of the
thought behind the policy and the impact of the UN’s work—security, human rights and universal
loss of Ariel Sharon, analyzes the Palestinian values, and development—and offers workable,
response from both moderates and Hamas, and practical principles of US policy toward the UN.
underscores the politically realist-minded assump- He addresses the crucial question of whether,
tions that continue to drive the policy forward. when, and how the United States should engage
or not engage with the United Nations in each of
2006, 170 pages its many different organs and activities.
ISBN: 978-0-8179-4772-9 $15.00 paper
2011, ca. 250 pages
ISBN: 978-0-8179-1344-1 $19.95 cloth
Managing American Hegemony The Myth of the Great Satan

Essays on Power in a Time A New Look at America’s Relations
of Dominance with Iran
Kori N. Schake Abbas Milani
An insightful look at US power: why it’s so This critical review of the history of America’s
predominant in the international order, whether relations with Iran shows how little of the two
it’s likely to remain so, and how to revise current countries’ long and complicated relationship
practices to reduce the US cost of managing is reflected in the foundational axioms of the
the system. “Great Satan” myth. The author explains why
meaningful and equitable relations can begin
2009, 208 pages only after the two nations have arrived at a
ISBN: 978-0-8179-4901-3 $25.00 cloth common, critical, and accurate reading of the
ISBN: 978-0-8179-4902-0 $15.00 paper past.
2010, 148 pages

ISBN: 978-0-8179-1134-8 $19.95 cloth
NATO Reykjavik Revisited

Its Past, Present, and Future Steps Toward a World Free of Nuclear
Peter Duignan Weapons—Complete Report of 2007
Hoover Institution Conference
The story of the most successful peacetime
venture in Western cooperation, from its shaky Edited by George P. Shultz,
beginnings to its cold war triumphs, failures, Steven P. Andreasen, Sidney D. Drell,
and successes. and James E. Goodby
“This collection of essays examines the practical
2000, 149 pages
steps necessary to address the current security
ISBN: 978-0-8179-9782-3 $16.95 paper
challenges of nuclear weapons and to move
toward the Reykjavik goal of eliminating all
nuclear weapons.”
—Choice
2008, 414 pages
ISBN: 978-0-8179-4921-1 $25.00 cloth
ISBN: 978-0-8179-4922-8 $15.00 paper

The Struggle across the Torn Country

Taiwan Strait Turkey: Between Secularism & Islamism
The Divided China Problem Zeyno Baran
Ramon H. Myers and Jialin Zhang Baran examines the intense struggle between
This book tells how China divided in 1949 into Turkey’s secularists and Islamists in their most
two regimes, why those regimes struggled to recent battles over their country’s destination.
achieve the same political goal—reunification— Looking into the fate of both Turkey’s secular-
and why their struggle continues today in a more ism and its democratic experiment, she shows
complex and dangerous way. The authors detail that, for all the flaws of its political journey, the
how the changes brought about by the 2000 modern Turkish state has managed to maintain
election not only intensified the conflict between an essential separation between religion and
the regimes but locked both sides into a new the political realm—a separation that is now in
contest that increased the probability of war. jeopardy.
2006, 168 pages 2010, 173 pages

Turning Points in Ending Unconditional Democracy

the Cold War Education and Politics in Occupied
Japan,1945–1952
Edited by Kiron K. Skinner
Insightful essays by expert contributors explain Toshio Nishi
the how and why behind the end of the cold “A carefully researched survey of Japan under
war. They detail the strategies of the key play- Allied military occupation from August 1945 to
ers—including Reagan, Gorbachev, Yeltsin, and the San Francisco Peace Conference of 1952.”
others—and the monumental events that led to —Pacific Affairs
the ultimate collapse of communism.
“Fascinating and instructive.”
2008, 366 pages —AsiaWeek
ISBN: 978-0-8179-4631-9 $25.00 cloth
ISBN: 978-0-8179-4632-6 $15.00 paper 2003, 367 pages
ISBN: 978-0-8179-7442-8 $15.00 paper
Copublished with Rowman & Littlefield The Wave

Victorious and Vulnerable Man, God, and the Ballot Box in the
Why Democracy Won in the 20th Middle East
Century and How it is Still Imperiled Reuel Marc Gerecht
Azar Gat Middle East expert Reuel Marc Gerecht argues
The democratic peace, or near absence of war that the Middle East may actually be at the
among themselves, is a unique feature of liberal beginning of a momentous democratic wave
democracies’ foreign policy behavior. Arguing whose convulsions could become the region’s
that this is merely one manifestation of much defining theme during Obama’s presidency. He
more sweeping and less recognized pacifist describes the powerful Middle Eastern demo-
tendencies typical of liberal democracies, Gat cratic movements coming from both the left and
offers a panoramic view of their distinctive way right and argues that America must reassess
in conflict and war. democracy’s supposed lack of a future in the
region.
To order, contact
Rowman & Littlefield at 800.462.6420 2011, 148 pages
2009, 140 pages ISBN: 978-0-8179-1334-2 $19.95 cloth
ISBN: 978-0-4422-0114-9 $29.95 cloth

The Ideological Struggle for Pakistan Saudi Arabia and the New
Ziad Haider Strategic Landscape
This assessment of the struggle for Pakistan’s Joshua Teitelbaum
identity, from its birth in 1947 to the present day, Teitelbaum evaluates Saudi foreign policy in the
provides a political and cultural understanding Persian Gulf and in the Arab-Israeli peace pro-
of the role and use of Islam in its evolution. The cess and provides a shrewd assessment of the
author, a Pakistani scholar, shows how Pakistan’s Saudi-US relationship. He debunks the tradition-
viability as a state depends in large part on its al view of Saudi foreign policy that emphasizes
ability to develop a new and progressive Islamic the Saudi concern with the Israeli-Palestinian
narrative. conflict and explains how the true concern of
Arabia’s rulers is the ideological battle that has
2010, 64 pages been opened up by Iran’s push into Arab affairs.
ISBN: 978-0-8179-1085-3 $9.95 paper
2010, 80 pages
ISBN: 978-0-8179-1105-8 $9.95 paper
Islamism and the Future of the Syria through Jihadist Eyes

Christians of the Middle East A Perfect Enemy
Habib C. Malik Nibras Kazimi
This sobering account documents the ordeal With field notes accumulated in a Syrian
of Christian Arabs in the Middle East in the environment not generally hospitable to research
current era of Islamist radicalism. Although those and inquiry, Kazimi provides a unique view of
Christians are leaving their homelands in record the Syrian regime and its base at home, filling
numbers, the author laments, the powers of the a void in our understanding of the intelligence
West have shown little interest in their fate. barons and soldiers who run that country. He
offers a look at the tactical, propagandist, and
2010, 80 pages strategic ingredients required, in jihadist eyes, for
ISBN: 978-0-8179-1095-2 $9.95 paper a successful jihad—and whether those ingredi-
ents are available in Syria.
2010, 123 pages

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Hoover Institution Press He alth Care
Health Reform without Side Effects Healthy, Wealthy, and Wise

Making Markets Work for Individual Five Steps to a Better Health Care System
Health Insurance Second Edition
Mark V. Pauly John F. Cogan, R. Glenn Hubbard, and
Pauly offers a detailed look at the individual Daniel P. Kessler
insurance market in the United States. He ex- In this second edition of their 2005 work, the
plains how it works and suggests approaches to authors offer market-based alternatives to recent
improvement that build on what currently works health care reforms that center on tax changes,
well. He concludes that although there are insurance market changes, and the redesign of
some serious deficiencies in today’s individual Medicare and Medicaid. They show that, by pro-
insurance market, there are also some impor- moting cost-conscious behavior and competition
tant advantages in this market that should be in both private markets and government programs,
preserved. we can slow the rate of growth of health care
costs and expand access to quality health care.
2010, 112 pages
ISBN: 978-0-8179-1044-0 $19.95 cloth 2011, 152 pages
ISBN: 978-0-8179-1064-8 $19.95 cloth
Power to the Patient Reforming America’s

Selected Health Care Issues and Health Care System
Policy Solutions The Flawed Vision of ObamaCare
Edited by Scott W. Atlas, M.D. Edited by Scott W. Atlas, M.D.
The United States has the costliest health care Health policy experts from the United States,
system per capita in the world. The debate Canada, and Western Europe discuss both
rages on over how to cope with the rising costs what to expect from the recent health reform
of medical care. Proposed solutions range from legislation and alternatives that should still be
a single-payer system with broad government considered. The contributors argue that Ameri-
control to loosely defined market-driven plans. cans already have a superior health care system
The authors look at three key elements of health and that if Congress enacts reforms that remove
care costs and offer thoughtful, realistic sugges- artificial barriers and constructively open markets
tions to help stem the tide of rising expenses for to competition, private-sector creativity will
everyone. generate innovative, low-cost insurance products
for tens of millions of consumers.
2005, 62 pages
ISBN: 978-0-8179-4592-3 $15.00 paper 2010, 182 pages
ISBN: 978-0-8179-1274-1 $19.95 cloth
Eight Questions You Should Ask
About Our Health Care System
(Even if the Answers Make You Sick)
Charles E. Phelps
Phelps provides a comprehensive look at our
health care system, including how the current
system evolved, how the health care sector be-
haves, and a detailed analysis of “the good, the
bad, and the ugly” parts of the system—from
technological advances (the good) to variations
in treatment patterns (the bad) to hidden costs
and perverse incentives (the ugly).
2010, 162 pages

ISBN: 978-0-8179-1054-9 $19.95 cloth

Hoover Institution Press New Histor
Namey Here
Boris Pasternak Courage under Fire

Family Correspondence 1921–1960 Testing Epictetus’s Doctrines in a
Translated by Nicholas Pasternak Slater Laboratory of Human Behavior
This selection of Boris Pasternak’s correspon- James B. Stockdale
dence with his parents and sisters from 1921 When physical disability from combat wounds
to 1960—including illustrations and photos—is brought about Jim Stockdale’s early retirement
an authoritative, indispensable introduction and from military life, he had the distinction of being
guide to the great writer’s life and work. His let- the only three-star officer in the history of the
ters are accomplished literary works in their own navy to wear both aviator wings and the
right, on a par with his poetry in their intensity Congressional Medal of Honor. His writings
and frankness. They are especially poignant in have been many and varied, but all converge
that after 1923 Pasternak was never to see his on the central theme of how man can rise with
family again. dignity to prevail in the face of adversity.
2010, 439 pages 1993, 21 pages

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ISBN: 978-0-8179-1025-9 $25.00 paper
The End of Modern History in the Freedom Betrayed

Middle East Herbert Hoover’s Secret History of the
Second World War and Its Aftermath
Bernard Lewis
Lewis looks at the new era in the Middle East: Edited by George H. Nash
with the departure of imperial powers, the Herbert Hoover’s Magnum Opus—being
region must now on its own resolve the political, published at last nearly fifty years after its
economic, cultural, and societal problems that completion—offers a revisionist reexamination
prevent it from accomplishing the next stage of World War II and its cold war aftermath
in the advance of civilization.There is enough and a sweeping indictment of the “lost states-
in the traditional culture of Islam on the one manship” of Franklin Roosevelt. Hoover offers
hand and the modern experience of the Muslim his frank evaluation of Roosevelt’s foreign
peoples on the other, he explains, to provide the policies before Pearl Harbor and policies
basis for an advance toward freedom in the true during the war, as well as an examination
sense of that word. of the war’s consequences.
2011, 188 pages 2011, ca. 920 pages

Lenin’s Brain and Other Tales from Politics, Murder, and Love in
the Secret Soviet Archives Stalin’s Kremlin
Paul R. Gregory The Story of Nikolai Bukharin and
Anna Larina
“With a narrative style that is simple and lucid
the book makes facinating reading, proving the Paul R. Gregory
wisdom of that age-old adage that ‘truth is often Drawing from Hoover Institution archival docu-
stranger than fiction.’” ments, Gregory sheds light on how the world’s
—S. V. Raju, Freedom First first socialist state went terribly wrong and why
it was likely to veer off course through the tragic
2008, 164 pages story of Stalin’s most prominent victims: Pravda
ISBN: 978-0-8179-4812-2 $15.00 paper editor Nikolai Bukharin and his wife, Anna Larina.
2010, 191 pages

ISBN: 978-0-8179-1034-1 $29.00 cloth
ISBN: 978-0-8179-1035-8 $19.00 paper

Hoover Institution Press Histor y
Thoughts of a Philosophical A Vietnam Experience

Fighter Pilot Ten Years of Reflection
James B. Stockdale James B. Stockdale
“No fair-minded reader can depart these pages The Medal of Honor was awarded to Admiral
without deep admiration for Stockdale and for Stockdale, who spent seven and a half years
the stoic philosophy he propounds. . . . This is a in a Hanoi prison. He survived because of his
book to be read, pondered, and cherished.” character and his values.
—Airpower Journal “An uncommon man with much to teach every
“It is difficult to do justice to this important, generation of Americans. . . . Contact Hoover
informative, and well-documented book. It is a Press and invest the time it takes to read
monument to scholarship.” 147 pages by Admiral Stockdale.”
—U.S. Naval Institution, Proceedings —Stephanie Salter
San Francisco Examiner
1995, 245 pages
1984, 147 pages
ISBN: 978-0-8179-9392-4 $15.95 paper
ISBN: 978-0-8179-8152-5 $9.95 paper
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Hoover Institution Press Studies of Nationalities
The Azerbaijani Turks The Crimean Tatars

Power and Identity under Alan W. Fisher
Russian Rule
“Professor Fisher’s excellent book is brief but
Audrey L. Altstadt clear and succinct. It should be required reading
“Altstadt’s book does a masterly job of analyz- for all students of Russian and European history.”
ing the complex relationship between Azerbai- —Slavic Review
jan and its colonizers over an extended period.”
—Journal of Modern History 1978, 264 pages
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and Other Controversial Essays Confirmation Wars
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Angry Times
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Our Founders Knew This Well Contentious Age
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Governing An Autobiography
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Historical Perspective
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Hoover Institution Press Index
A Freedom or Terror, Berman 24 Preventing Surprise Attacks, Posner 35

“A Country I Do Not Recognize,” ed. Bork 37 Free Markets Under Siege, Epstein 19, 33 Property Rights, Anderson and Huggins 33, 34
Advancing Student Achievement, Walberg 21 Future of American Intelligence, ed. Berkowitz 35
Americans and Europeans Dancing in the Dark, R
Bark 24 G Race & Economics, Williams 10, 19
Anti-Americanism in Europe, Berman 24, 33 Getting Off Track, Taylor 19 Race, Wrongs, and Remedies, Wax 39
Azerbaijani Turks, Altstadt 31 Gravest Danger, Drell and Goodby 35 Reacting to the Spending Spree,
Greener Than Thou, Anderson and Huggins 23 ed. Anderson and Sousa 20
B Reforming America’s Health Care System,
Barbarians Inside the Gates, Sowell 37 H ed. Atlas 16, 28
Best Defense? Sofaer 35 Health Reform without Side Effects, Pauly 28 Remaking Domestic Intelligence, Posner 33, 36
Boris Pasternak, trans. Slater 29 Healthy, Wealthy, and Wise, Reroute the Preschool Juggernaut, Finn Jr. 22
Bringing in a New Era in Character Education, Cogan, Hubbard, and Kessler 7, 28 Reykjavik Revisited,
ed. Damon 21 ed. Shultz, Andreasen, Drell, and Goodby 25
I Road Ahead for the Fed,
C Ideological Struggle for Pakistan, Haider 27 ed. Ciorciari and Taylor 20
California Electricity Crisis, Sweeney 23 Implications of the Reykjavik Summit on Its Twentieth
Charter Schools Against the Odds, ed. Hill 21 Anniversary, ed. Drell and Shultz 24 S
Commons, ed. Machan 23 Impostors in the Temple, Anderson 21 Saudi Arabia and the New Strategic Landscape,
Communicating with the World of Islam, Islamic Extremism and the War of Ideas, Hughes 24 Teitelbaum 27
ed. Johnson 35 Islamism and the Future of the Christians of the Skating on Stilts, Baker 36
Confirmation Wars, Wittes 37 Middle East, Malik 27 Social Security, Blahous 34
Controversial Essays, Sowell 37 Israel’s Unilateralism, Zelnick 25 Stay of Execution, Lane 34
Corn Ethanol, Glozer 15, 23 Is Reality Optional? Sowell 38 Struggle across the Taiwan Strait,
Countering Terrorism, Posner 35 Myers and Zhang 26
Courage under Fire, Stockdale 29 K Syria through Jihadist Eyes, Kazimi 27
Courting Failure, ed. Hanushek 21 Kazakhs, Olcott 31
Crimean Tatars, Fisher 31 T
Crony Capitalism and Economic Growth in Latin L Terrorism, the Laws of War, and the Constitution,
America, ed. Haber 19 Latvians, Plakans 31 ed. Berkowitz 36
Czechs and the Lands of the Bohemian Crown, Learning as We Go, Hill 22 Tests, Testing, and Genuine School Reform,
Agnew 31 Learning from No Child Left Behind, Chubb 22 Walberg 11, 22
Lenin’s Brain and Other Tales from the Secret Soviet Thoughts of a Philosophical Fighter Pilot,
D Archives, Gregory 29 Stockdale 30
Death Grip, Bolick 4, 34 Liberty Versus the Tyranny of Socialism, Williams 38 Torn Country, Baran 26
Discovering the Hidden Listener, Parta 24 Living with the UN, Anderson 8, 25 Trial of a Thousand Years, Hill 12, 36
Do the Right Thing, Williams 37 Looking Backward and Forward, Wolf Jr. 38 Turning Points in Ending the Cold War, ed. Skinner 26
E M U
Education, Sowell 21 Macedonia and the Macedonians, Rossos 32 Unbearable Heaviness of Governing, Keller 17, 39
Eight Questions You Should Ask About Our Health Managing American Hegemony, Schake 25 Uncertain Shield, Posner 36
Care System, Phelps 28 Modern Uzbeks, Allworth 32 Unconditional Democracy, Nishi 26
Ending Government Bailouts as We Know Them, Moldovans, King 32 Up from the Projects, Williams 18, 39
ed. Scott, Shultz, and Taylor 19 More Liberty Means Less Government, Williams 38
End of Modern History in the Middle East, Myth of the Great Satan, Milani 25 V
Lewis 5, 29 My Times & Life, Keller 14, 38 Varieties of Conservatism in America,
Essence of Becker, ed. Febrero and Schwartz 20 ed. Berkowitz 39
Essence of Friedman, ed. Leube 20 N Varieties of Progressivism in America,
Essence of Hayek, ed. Nishiyama and Leube 20 NATO, Duignan 25 ed. Berkowitz 39
Essence of Stigler, ed. Leube and Moore 20 Never a Matter of Indifference, ed. Berkowitz 39 Victorious and Vulnerable, Gat 26
Estonia and the Estonians, Raun 31 Vietnam Experience, Stockdale 30
Ever Wonder Why? Sowell 37 O Volga Tatars, Rorlich 32
Our Schools and Our Future, ed. Peterson 22
F W
Fight Club Politics, Eilperin 38 P Warrant for Terror, Bar 36
Flat Tax, Hall and Rabushka 19, 33 Pension Wise, Blahous 9, 34 Wave, Gerecht 13, 26
Freedom Betrayed, ed. Nash 6, 29 Political Environmentalism, ed. Anderson 23 Why Government Is the Problem, Friedman 34
Politics, Murder, and Love in Stalin’s Kremlin,
Gregory 29 Y
Power to the Patient, ed. Atlas 28 You Have to Admit It’s Getting Better, ed. Anderson 23

Hoover Institution Press Author Index
A J
Agnew, Hugh 31 Johnson, A. Ross 35 T
Allworth, Edward A. 32 Taylor, John B. 19, 20
Altstadt, Audrey L. 31 K Teitelbaum, Joshua 27
Anderson, Kenneth 8, 25 Kazimi, Nibras 27
Anderson, Martin 21 Keller, Morton 14, 17, 38, 39 W
Anderson, Terry L. 20, 23, 33, 34 Kessler, Daniel P. 7, 28 Walberg, Herbert J. 11, 21, 22
Andreasen, Steven P. 25 King, Charles 32 Wax, Amy L. 39
Atlas, Scott W. 16, 28 Williams, Walter E. 10, 18, 19, 37, 38, 39
L Wittes, Benjamin 37
B Lane, Charles 34 Wolf Jr., Charles 38
Baker, Stewart A. 36 Leube, Kurt R. 20
Bar, Shmuel 36 Lewis, Bernard 5, 29 Z
Baran, Zeyno 26 Zelnick, Robert 25
Bark, Dennis L. 24 M Zhang, Jialin 26
Berkowitz, Peter 35, 36, 39 Machan, Tibor R. 23
Berman, Russell A. 24, 33 Malik, Habib C. 27
Blahous, Charles 9, 34 Milani, Abbas 25
Bolick, Clint 4, 34 Moore, Thomas G. 20
Bork, Robert 37 Myers, Ramon H. 26
C N
Chubb, John E. 22 Nash, George H. 6, 29
Ciorciari, John D. 20 Nishi, Toshio 26
Cogan, John F. 7, 28 Nishiyama, Chiaki 20
D O
Damon, William 21 Olcott, Martha Brill 31
Drell, Sidney D. 24, 25, 35
Duignan, Peter 25 P
Parta, R. Eugene 24
E Pauly, Mark V. 28
Eilperin, Juliet 38 Peterson, Paul E. 22
Epstein, Richard A. 19, 33 Phelps, Charles E. 28
Plakans, Andrejs 31
F Posner, Richard A. 33, 35, 36
Febrero, Ramón 20
Finn Jr., Chester E. 22 R
Fisher, Alan W. 31 Rabushka, Alvin 19, 33
Friedman, Milton 34 Raun, Toivo U. 31
Rorlich, Azade-Ayse 32
G Rossos, Andrew 32
Gat, Azar 26
Gerecht, Reuel Marc 13, 26 S
Glozer, Ken G. 15, 23 Schake, Kori N. 25
Goodby, James E. 25, 35 Schwartz, Pedro S. 20
Gregory, Paul R. 29 Scott, Kenneth E. 19
Shultz, George P. 19, 24, 25, 35
H Skinner, Kiron K. 26
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Today, with its world-renowned group of scholars and ongoing pro-

HOOVER INSTITUTION PRESS

New Releases 4–13

Previously Announced Titles 14–18

Environment and Energy 23

Foreign Affairs 24–27

Studies of Nationalities 31–32

Laws and Regulations 34

National Security 35–36

Political Philosophies and American Culture 37–39

In an 1873 decision, the Supreme Court by a 5–4 vote—highly un-

Clint Bolick is a research fellow at the Hoover Institution and also

4 Web: www.hooverpress.org ISBN: 978-0-8179 T: 800.621.2736 or 773.702.7000

The End of Modern History

With the ending of global strategic confrontation between su-

Bernard Lewis is the Cleveland E. Dodge Professor of Near Eastern

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The culmination of an extraordinary literary project that Herbert

On issue after issue, Hoover raises crucial questions that continue

Herbert Hoover (1874–1964) was president of the United States

Geoorge H. Nash is a historian, lecturer, and authority on the life of

6 Web: www.hooverpress.org ISBN: 978-0-8179 T: 800.621.2736 or 773.702.7000

Healthy, Wealthy, and Wise

Health care in the United States has made remarkable advances

The book proposes five specific reforms to improve the ability of

R. Glenn Hubbard is dean of the Columbia University Graduate

Daniel P. Kessler is a professor of economics, law, and policy at the

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Living with the UN

Cutting through the “alphabet soup” of UN agencies as well as the

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America’s insurance system for single-employer pension plans,

Blahous details both the technical reasons behind pension plan

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Race & Economics

Walter E. Williams applies an economic analysis to the problems

Williams debunks many common labor market myths and reveals

Walter E. Williams is the John M. Olin Distinguished Professor of

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Tests, Testing, and Genuine School Reform

The pressing need to improve achievement in American schools is

To minimize mistaken policies and practices, the author also describes

Herbert J. Walberg is a distinguished visiting fellow at the Hoover

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Trial of a Thousand Years

“A Muslim has no nationality except his religious beliefs,” said

Charles Hill, a career minister in the US Foreign Service, is a

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The promise of democracy for Muslims offers something historically

The author explains the importance of those countries that hold

Reuel Marc Gerecht is a senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense

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My Times & Life

In My Times and Life, Morton Keller recounts his “not extraordinary

Set against the backdrop of ever-tumultuous events in the world at

Morton Keller is a professor emeritus in history at Brandeis Univer-

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In this in-depth, fact-based evaluation, Ken G. Glozer provides a

Part II contains an objective, in-depth evaluation of the major claims

Ken G. Glozer is currently president of OMB Professionals, a

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Amid much controversy in March 2010, Congress passed President