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The Hoover Institution at Stanord University is a public policy researchcenter devoted to the advanced study o politics, economics, and polit-ical economydomestic and oreignas well as international aairs.Founded in 1919 by Herbert Hoover, who went on to become thethirty-rst president o the United States, the Institution originated as aspecialized collection o documents on the causes and consequenceso World War I. The collection grew rapidly and soon became one othe largest archives and most complete libraries in the world devoted topolitical, economic, and social change in the twentieth century.

By the late 1940s, the richness o the collection had attracted scholarsto use the documents in their work. Expanding its agenda to includespecic research endeavors led to a vast accumulation o knowledge,and the Hoover Institution became one o the rst and most distin-guished academic centers in the United States dedicated to publicpolicy research.Today, with its world-renowned group o scholars and ongoing pro-grams o policy-oriented research, the Hoover Institution puts its ac-cumulated knowledge to work as a prominent contributor to the worldmarketplace o ideas defning a ree society.

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Contents New Releases 413

Previously Announced Titles 1418

Economics 1920

Education 2122

Environment and Energy 23

Foreign Aairs 2427

Health Care 28

History 2930

Studies o Nationalities 3132

Hoover Classics 33

Laws and Regulations 34

National Security 3536

Political Philosophies and American Culture 3739

Title Index 40

Author Index

General Inormation 42

Order Form 43



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New Releases

March 2011, 88 pages

ISBN: 978-0-8179-1314-4

$19.95 cloth

Law/Constitution

Death GripLoosening the Laws Stranglehold overEconomic LibertyClint Bolick

In an 1873 decision, the Supreme Court by a 54 votehighly un-usual in those daysupheld a bribery-procured Louisiana slaughter-house monopoly that had been challenged by a group o butcherswhose businesses were jeopardized. By that decision (called theSlaughter-HouseCases), one o the most important and benecialproducts o the Civil Wara revolutionary constitutional provisionintended to protect civil rights against oppression by state govern-mentswas nullied. The repercussions o that unortunate decisionare still being elt today.

Clint Bolick looks at the state o economic liberty in our country andexplains how the consequences o Slaughter-Housecontinue tomaniest themselves to this day. Bolick examines the history and in-tent o the Fourteenth Amendment and the judicial nullication o theprivileges (or immunities) clause in the Slaughter-HouseCases andtheir atermath through the years. Looking at more-recent decisions,he sees hope in the current campaign to restore economic libertyas a undamental civil right. Armed with knowledge, passion, and

commitment to principle, he concludes, we can win the battle torestore economic liberty once and or all.

In Death Grip, Clint Bolick masterully explains why a100-plus-year-old Supreme Court case provides the contextor some o the most important constitutional issues o our day.Combining history and current controversies, along with con-stitutional theory and real-world litigation experience, DeathGrip is an essential read or those interested in all o the rightsguaranteed by the Constitution.

Scott Bullock, senior attorney at theInstitute or Justice and lead attorney in

Kelo v. City of New London

Clint Bolick is a research ellow at the Hoover Institution and alsoserves as the director o the Goldwater Institute Schar-NortonCenter or Constitutional Litigation in Phoenix. He has written manybooks, including Leviathan: The Growth o Local Government andthe Erosion o Liberty(2004) and Davids Hammer: The Case or anActivist Judiciary(2007).


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ISBN: 978-0-8179-1294-9

$19.95 cloth

History/Middle East

The End o Modern Historyin the Middle EastBernard Lewis

With the ending o global strategic conrontation between su-perpowers, those in the Middle East must adjust to new realities,accepting nal responsibility or their own aairs, making andrecognizing their mistakes, and accepting the consequences. In TheEnd o Modern History in the Middle East, Bernard Lewis discussesthe uture o the region in this new, postimperialist era. For each andevery country and or the region as a whole, he explains, there is arange o alternative utures: at one end, cooperation and progress;at the other, a vicious cycle o poverty and ignorance.

The author examines in detail the issues most critical to the regionsuture. He describes oil as the current, most important export to theoutside world rom the Middle East but warns that technology willeventually make it obsolete, leaving those who depend solely on oilrevenues with a bleak uture. The three actors that could most helptransorm the Middle East, according to Lewis, are Turkey, Israel,and women. He also argues that there is enough in the traditionalculture o Islam on the one hand and the modern experience o the

Muslim peoples on the other to provide the basis or an advancetoward reedom in the true sense o that word and to achieve thesocial, cultural, and scientic changes necessary to bring the MiddleEast into line with the developed countries o both West and East.

Bernard Lewis is the Cleveland E. Dodge Proessor o Near EasternStudies Emeritus at Princeton University. A widely read expert on theMiddle East, he is regarded as one o the Wests leading scholarson the region. He has published numerous books, among themIslam: The Religion and the People, coauthored with Buntzie EllisChurchill.


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New Releases

June 2011, ca. 920 pages

ISBN: 978-0-8179-1234-5

$49.95 cloth

History/Military

Freedom BetrayedHerbert Hoovers Secret History o theSecond World War and Its AtermathEdited by George H. Nash

The culmination o an extraordinary literary project that HerbertHoover launched during World War II, his Magnum Opusbe-ing published at last nearly ty years ater its completionoersa revisionist reexamination o the war and its cold war atermath,and a sweeping indictment o the lost statesmanship o FranklinRoosevelt. Freedom Betrayed: Herbert Hoovers Secret History othe Second World War and Its Atermath originated as a volume

o Hoovers memoirs, a book initially ocused on his battle againstPresident Roosevelts oreign policies beore Pearl Harbor. As timewent on, however, Hoover widened his scope to include Rooseveltsoreign policies during the war, as well as the wars consequences:the expansion o the Soviet empire at wars end and the eruption othe cold war against the Communists.

On issue ater issue, Hoover raises crucial questions that continueto be debated to this day. Did Franklin Roosevelt deceitully ma-neuver the United States into an undeclared and unconstitutionalnaval war with Germany in 1941? Did he unnecessarily appeaseJoseph Stalin at the pivotal Tehran conerence in 1943? Did com-munist agents and sympathizers in the White House, Department oState, and Department o the Treasury play a malign role in someo Americas wartime decisions? Hoover raises numerous argumentsthat challenge us to think again about our past. Whether or not oneultimately accepts his arguments, the exercise o conronting themwill be worthwhile to all.

Herbert Hoover (18741964) was president o the United Statesrom 1929 to 1933. An internationally acclaimed humanitarian,he was the author o more than thirty books and the ounder o the

Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace.

Geoorge H. Nash is a historian, lecturer, and authority on the lie oHerbert Hoover. His publications include three volumes o a deni-tive scholarly biography o Hoover and the monograph HerbertHoover and Stanord University, as well as numerous articles inscholarly and popular journals. A specialist in twentieth-centurypolitical and intellectual history, Nash is also the author o TheConservative Intellectual Movement in America since1945.


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Healthy, Wealthy, and WiseFive Steps to a Better Health Care SystemSecondedition

John F. Cogan, R. Glenn Hubbard, and Daniel P. Kessler

Health care in the United States has made remarkable advancesduring the past orty years. Yet our health care system has severalwell-known problems: high costs, signicant numbers o peoplewithout insurance, and glaring gaps in quality and eciencyandthe Patient Protection and Aordable Care Act o 2010 is not theanswer. This second edition o Healthy, Wealthy, and Wisedetailsa better approach, oering undamental reorm alternatives centering

on tax changes, insurance market changes, and redesigning Medi-care and Medicaid.

The book proposes ve specic reorms to improve the ability omarkets to create a lower-cost, higher-quality health care systemthat is responsive to the needs o individuals, including increasingindividual involvement, deregulating insurance markets and redesign-ing Medicare and Medicaid, improving availability and quality oinormation, enhancing competition, and reorming the malpracticesystem. The authors show that, by promoting cost-conscious behaviorand competition in both private markets and government programssuch as Medicare and Medicaid, we can slow the rate o growtho health care costs, expand access to high-quality health care, andslow down runaway spending.

John F. Cogan is the Leonard and Shirley Ely Senior Fellow at theHoover Institution, Stanord University.

R. Glenn Hubbard is dean o the Columbia University GraduateSchool o Business, the Russell L. Carson Proessor o Finance andEconomics, and a proessor o economics. He is also a researchassociate at the National Bureau o Economic Research and a visit-

ing scholar at the American Enterprise Institute.

Daniel P. Kessler is a proessor o economics, law, and policy at theStanord University Graduate School o Business; a senior ellow atthe Hoover Institution, Stanord University; and a research associateat the National Bureau o Economic Research.

March 2011, ca. 152 pages

ISBN: 978-0-8179-1064-8

$19.95 clothBusiness & Economics/Free Enterprise


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New Releases

May 2011, ca. 250 pages

ISBN: 978-0-8179-1344-1

$19.95 clothPolitical Science/Government

Living with the UNAmerican Responsibilities and International OrdeKenneth Anderson

What exactly is the United Nations? For that matter, why is there still aUnited Nations at all? In Living with the UN, international legal scholarKenneth Anderson analyzes US-UN relations in each major aspect o thUNs worksecurity, human rights and universal values, and develop-mentand addresses the crucial questions o whether, when, and howthe United States should engage or not engage with the United Nationin its many dierent organs and activities. He looks at each UN organand unction and suggests the orm o engagement that the United Stateshould take toward it, giving workable, pragmatic meaning to multilat-eral engagement across the ull range o the UNs work.

Cutting through the alphabet soup o UN agencies as well as theutopian idealism that, however noble, oten clouds analyses o theUnited Nations, the book oers principles or a permanent US-UNrelationship based on ideals and interests between the United Statesand the United Nationsand provides guidance or long-term US policthat runs ar beyond the Obama administrations tenure. Ultimately, Livingwith the UNoers a vision o a better, but also more modest, United

Nationsa vision unlikely to be realized but well worth presenting.

Kenneth Anderson is a proessor o international law at WashingtonCollege o Law, American University, Washington, DC, and a visitingellow at the Hoover Institution, where he is also a member o the HoovTask Force on National Security and Law. He specializes in internationalaw, human rights, and the laws o war, as well as international busineslaw, international development, and not-or-prot law.


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January 2011, 90 pages

ISBN: 978-0-8179-1214-7

$19.95 clothBusiness & Economics/

Corporate Finance

Pension WiseConronting Employer Pension UnderundingAnd Sparing Taxpayers the Next BailoutCharles Blahous

Americas insurance system or single-employer pension plans,operated by the Pension Benet Guaranty Corporation (PBGC), isunder serious nancial strain. In Pension Wise: Conronting EmployerPension UnderundingAnd Sparing Taxpayers the Next Bailout,Charles Blahous, one o the nations oremost retirement securityexperts, explains the origins and dangers o current underundingin our single-employer dened-benet pension system and oersprinciples to underlie a solution.

Blahous details both the technical reasons behind pension planunderunding and the political considerations that prioritize the near-term nancial demands o employers and pension beneciaries overthe long-term scal health o the pension insurance system. The authoralso presents the undamental value judgments concerning who shouldbear the cost o lling the PBGC shortall and to what extent the risko nancing pension benets should continue to be shited away romplan sponsors, either to other employers or to taxpayers at large.Although acknowledging that there are no obviously correct answers,he suggests a range o reorms to improve the pension insurancesystems operation and to resolve its projected shortall.

Charles Blahous, one o the nations oremost retirement securityexperts, serves as one o two public trustees or the Social Securityand Medicare programs. Blahous served as deputy director oPresident George W. Bushs National Economic Council and, beorethat, as executive director o the presidents bipartisan Social SecurityCommission and as special assistant or economic policy. He recentlywrote Social Security: The Unfnished Work(2010).


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New Releases

Race & EconomicsHow Much Can Be Blamed on Discrimination?

Walter E. Williams

Walter E. Williams applies an economic analysis to the problemsblack Americans have aced in the past and still ace in the presentto show that ree-market resource allocation, as opposed to politicalallocation, is in the best interests o minorities. Contrasting the ea-tures o market resource allocation with those o the political arena,he explains how, in the political arena, minorities cannot realize aparticular preerence unless they win the will o the majority. In themarket, he shows, there is a sort o parity (nonexistent in the politicalarena) in which one persons dollar has the same power as the nextpersons.

Williams debunks many common labor market myths and revealshow the minimum wage law has imposed incalculable harm on themost disadvantaged members o our society. He explains that thereal problem is that people are not so much underpaid as under-skilled and that the real task is to help unskilled people becomeskilled. The author also reveals how licensing and regulation reduceeconomic opportunities, especially or those who might be de-

scribed as discriminated against and having little political clout. Us-ing the examples o the taxi cab and trucking industries beore andater deregulation, Williams illustrates how government regulationcloses entry and reinorces economic handicaps, whereas deregula-tion has not only helped minorities enter industries in greater numbersbut also beneted consumers.

Walter E. Williams is the John M. Olin Distinguished Proessor oEconomics at George Mason University and a nationally syndicatedcolumnist. He is the author o 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 Quarterlyand popular publications such as Readers Digest, Regulation, PolicyReview, and Newsweek.

April 2011, ca. 174 pages

ISBN: 978-0-8179-1244-4

$24.95 clothISBN: 978-0-8179-1245-1$14.95 paper

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May 2011, ca. 90 pages

ISBN: 978-0-8179-1354-0

$19.95 cloth

Education/Testing & Measurement

Tests, Testing, and Genuine School ReormHerbert J. Walberg

The pressing need to improve achievement in American schools iswidely recognized. In Tests, Testing, and Genuine School Reorm,Herbert J. Walberg draws on scientic studies o tests and their usesto inorm citizens, educators, and policy makers about well-establishedprinciples o testing, current problems, and promising evidence-basedsolutions. He explains the central considerations in developing andevaluating good tests and tells how tests can best be used, coveringsuch topics as using tests or student incentives, paying teachers orperormance, and using tests in eorts to attain new state andnational standards.

To minimize mistaken policies and practices, the author also describestesting technology to enable readers to evaluate and make better useo tests. And because valid tests cannot be developed without clear,specic standards, one chapter is devoted to standards and how theyshould determine the plans and development o tests and testing. Inview o the continuing technical and political problems o tests andtesting, the last chapter argues that, or accountability, improvement o

tests and testing, and raud prevention, the development, administra-tion, scoring, and reporting o test results should be conducted inde-pendent o traditional school authorities.

Herbert J. Walberg is a distinguished visiting ellow at the HooverInstitution at Stanord University and a project investigator at theVanderbilt University National Center on School Choice. Renownedthroughout the world or his expertise on education policy and prac-tice, Walberg has written and edited more than sixty-ve booksand published some 350 articles on education and exceptional humanaccomplishments. His recent publications include the book Advancing

Student Achievement(2010).


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New Releases

May 2010, 182 pages

ISBN: 978-0-8179-1324-3

$19.95 clothPolitical Science/Political

Freedom & Security

Trial o a Thousand YearsWorld Order and IslamismCharles Hill

A Muslim has no nationality except his religious belies, saidEgyptian Sayyid Qutb, a key gure in the world o political Islamwho was executed by the secular regime in his homeland in 1966.For decades, the ideologues o pan-Islam have reused to acceptthe boundaries and the responsibilities o the order o states. In Trialo a Thousand Years, Charles Hill analyzes the long war o Islamismagainst the international state system. Hill places the Islamists in

their proper historical place, showing that they are but the latestchallenge to the requirements that states have placed on themselvessince the international system was born in 1648.

The author describes the many wars on world order over themodern centuriesthe French Revolution and Napoleonic Wars,World Wars I and II, the cold warand gives a unique historicalperspective to the Islamic challenge o the twenty-rst century inIran, Aghanistan, and beyond. He concludes that America mustnot give up its values; neither should we retreat by declaring thatwe will practice them only at home or by telling ourselves that ourvalues are no more worthy than any others selected at random romamong the worlds many cultures. The rst step, he says, is to rec-ognize the problem and then try to develop ways to deal with theexploitation o asymmetries by the enemies o world order.

Charles Hill, a career minister in the US Foreign Service, is aresearch ellow at the Hoover Institution. Hill was executive aideto ormer US secretary o state George P. Shultz (198589) andserved as special consultant on policy to the secretary-general o theUnited Nations rom 1992 to 1996. He is also the Brady-JohnsonDistinguished Fellow in Grand Strategy and senior lecturer in inter-

national studies and in humanities at Yale University.


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ISBN: 978-0-8179-1334-2

$19.95 cloth

Political Science/Political Ideologies

The WaveMan, God, and the Ballot Box in theMiddle EastReuel Marc Gerecht

The promise o democracy or Muslims oers something historicallyunparalleled. But how powerul is the idea o democracy in theMiddle East? Could the region actually be at the beginning o ademocratic wave, or is a democratic recession under way inIslamic lands? In The Wave, Middle East expert Reuel Marc Gerechtargues that the Middle East may actually be at the beginning o amomentous democratic wave whose convulsions could become the

regions dening theme during Obamas presidency. He describesthe powerul Middle Eastern democratic movements coming romboth the secular let and the religious right and asserts that Americamust reassess democracys supposed lack o a uture in the region.

The author explains the importance o those countries that holdthe keys to the success or ailure o democracy in the region, mostnotably Egypt, Turkey, Iran, and the United States. He tells whymainstream Islamist groups today see elections, not revolution, as ameans or society to maintain akhlaq: the mores that dene goodMuslims. And he shows why any legitimate orm o government inthe contemporary Arab Middle East must be seen to be comple-mentary to the Prophet Muhammads legacy and the Holy Law. Idemocracy is to succeed in Arab lands, Gerecht concludes, it willbe because devout Arabs have decided that their aith and repre-sentative government can meld.

Reuel Marc Gerechtis a senior ellow at the Foundation or Deenseo Democracies. He is a ormer director o the Project or the NewAmerican Centurys Middle East Initiative and a ormer residentellow at the American Enterprise Institute. Gerecht also served as aMiddle 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, andthe Coming o Arab Democracy(2004).


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Previously Announced Ti t les

December 2010, 162 pages

ISBN: 978-0-8179-1184-3

$19.95 clothBiography & Autobiography/

Personal Memoirs

My Times & LieA Historians Progress through aContentious AgeMorton Keller

In My Times and Lie, Morton Keller recounts his not extraordinarylie played out in quite extraordinary timesrom the Great Depres-sion through World War II, the cold war, the sixties, and 9/11. Aclassic American saga o respectable achievement rom relativelyhumble origins, his lie through eight-plus decades as a solid,unequivocal, dues-paying member o the middle class resonatesbeyond the individual to echo the experiences, the belies, and the

values o his generation.

Set against the backdrop o ever-tumultuous events in the world atlarge, Keller describes his parents early lie, his childhood in Brook-lyn, and his education at the University o Rochester and at Harvard.He recounts his academic career at North Carolina, Penn, Harvard,Oxord, and Brandeis and the scholarly work that made him oneo the nations leading political historians. He tells o his marriageo nearly sixty years, his refections on dealing with the baby boomgeneration in the 1960s and 1970s, and his more sedate modeo existence in the inner-directed 1980s and 1990s. Although borntoo late to be part o the great generation that ought and wonWorld War II, and born too early to be part o the boomer genera-tion, Keller nevertheless spent a ascinating lie riding the wave osocial change that transormed American lie during the second halo the twentieth century.

Morton Keller is a proessor emeritus in history at Brandeis Univer-sity and a legal and political historian. His most recent books areAmericas Three Regimes: A New Political Historyand The Unbear-able Heaviness o Governing: The Obama Administration in Histori-cal Perspective.


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April 2011, 256 pages

ISBN: 978-0-8179-4961-7

$19.95 clothBusiness & Economics/Industries

Corn EthanolWho Pays? Who Benefts?Ken G. Glozer

In this in-depth, act-based evaluation, Ken G. Glozer provides adetailed political history o how the United States ended up withthe current ederal corn ethanol policy. Part I relates the signicantexternal events that have driven the politics that in turn has driventhe policy since 1977. He answers important questions about whenthe policy started, how it evolved, the major political and marketorces that drove it, and, most important, who the key ocials were

that ormed and shaped the policy.

Part II contains an objective, in-depth evaluation o the major claimsmade by those who have advocated the ethanol policies during thepast thirty years. Glozer uses his analytic policy evaluation skills,honed during his twenty-six years with the White House Oce oManagement and Budget, to probe how well the ethanol policyhas worked compared to the claims made by two presidents, threeederal agencies, ethanol producers, and the corn and soybeangrowers.

The author presents the results o an evaluation o the RenewalableFuels Standard, which was rst enacted in 1975, then doubled,to a mandatory 15 billion gallons o corn ethanol blended intothe nations gasoline supplies. His surprising ndingthat ederalethanol policy has little to do with energy and everything to dowith wealth transeris particularly compelling because, ater threedecades o ederal subsidies, trade protection, and, most recently,mandated ethanol blending, ethanol remains uneconomical. Also,according to the Department o Energys Energy Inormation Admin-istration, ethanol never has and never will have a signicant impacton petroleum imports compared to what could be achieved undera competitive market policy. Glozers sobering conclusion is that the

taxpayers and consumers are the victims o the current policy in thatthey have no choice but to pay and pay.

Ken G. Glozer is currently president o OMB Proessionals, aWashington, DCbased energy consulting rm. He was a seniorexecutive service career proessional with the White House Oceo Management and Budget in the energy, environment, andagriculture arena or twenty-six years.



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October 2010, 182 pages

ISBN: 978-0-8179-1274-1

$19.95 clothPolitical Science/Political

Freedom & Security

Reorming AmericasHealth Care SystemThe Flawed Vision o ObamaCareEdited by Scott W. Atlas, M.D.

Amid much controversy in March 2010, Congress passed PresidentBarack Obamas sweeping legislation to undamentally transormAmericas health care system in the Patient Protection and AordableCare Act. In Reorming Americas Health Care System, health policyexperts rom the United States, Canada, and Western Europe discussboth what to expect rom the recent health reorm legislation andalternatives that should still be considered. They oer critical apprais-

als o numerous aspects o the new law, looking at the individualmandate to buy insurance, the threats to medical innovation, thereduction o choice to consumers, and the complexities o medicalmalpractice reorm. In addition they examine lessons learned romstate health reorms, the Canadian governments control o access tocare, and Western European governments oversight o comparativeeectiveness.

The contributors stress that, although government can be a positivepiece o the health care puzzle by acilitating competitive markets, itis the marketplace that can provide more choices, better care, higherquality, and cost based on value. Innovation, they argue, comesrom the private sector, not government, and there is no reason thatthe health insurance industry would be an exception. I Congressenacts reorms that remove articial barriers and constructively openmarkets to competition, private-sector creativity will generate innova-tive, low-cost insurance products or tens o millions o consumers andacilitate innovations in medical care that have been the linchpin oimproved health care during the past several decades. Such genuinereorms would bring down the cost o insurance, reduce the numbero uninsured, increase individual choice, and empower Americans tomake value-based decisions or their amilies.

Scott W. Atlas, M.D., is a senior ellow at the Hoover Institution, aproessor at the Stanord University Medical Center, and a senior el-low at the Freeman Spogli Institute or International Studies.


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October 2010, 188 pages

ISBN: 978-0-8179-1264-2

$19.95 cloth

Political Science/Government

The Unbearable Heaviness o GoverningThe Obama Administration inHistorical PerspectiveMorton Keller

We tend to view the character o an administration through thepersona o its president, especially that o Barack Obama, with hisunique baggage o race, personality, political style, and campaignmessage o hope and renewal. In this critical look at the realities thathave shaped the rst stage o Obamas presidency, Morton Kellerprovides a progress report that rests less on the day-to-day perspec-tive o pundits and politicians and more on the longer perspective o

history. Kellers history-ocused examination looks at the presidentsdeveloping style o governing, with particular attention to his signa-ture policies o the stimulus, nancial, and health care reorms, andanalyzes the Obama presidency in light o historical analogues,contemporary political lie, and the nature o key government institu-tions such as Congress and the bureaucracy.

Comparing our presidents with their predecessors is one way tounderstand more ully the character and quality o their perormance.Keller compares the current president to predecessors such as Wood-row Wilson, FDR, LBJ, Jimmy Carter, and Bill Clinton and concludesthat, as yet, there is no clear consensus on the character or contento Obamas presidential leadership or where he ts in the prevail-ing typology/classication o Americas chie executives. Taking intoaccount the general standing o the president, his program, andhis party; the sources o public discontent; and the appeal (or lackthereo) o the opposition, Keller concludes by speculating on theuture prospects o Obamas administration in the realms o policyand politics.

Morton Keller is a proessor emeritus o history at Brandeis University.He has written a number o works on American political and legal

history, among them, Americas Three Regimes: A New PoliticalHistory.


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December 2010, 150 pages

ISBN: 978-0-8179-1254-3

$24.95 clothISBN: 978-0-8179-1255-0

$14.95 paper

Biography & Autobiography/Personal Memoirs

Up rom the ProjectsAn AutobiographyWalter E. Williams

Nationally syndicated columnist and prolic author Walter E.Williams recalls some o the highlights and turning points o his lie.From his lower-middle-class beginnings in a mixed but predominantlyblack neighborhood in West Philadelphia to his department chair atGeorge Mason University, Williams tells an only in America storyo a lie o achievement.

Williams describes the infuences o his early yearssuch as theteachers who demanded his best eorts and made no excuses orhimand tells how his two years in the army became an importantpart o his maturation process, despite the racism he encountered.He recounts his early time getting established in Los Angelesgetting his BA, going on to grad school at UCLA, and beginninghis teaching career. And he tells how his subsequent move to theUrban Institute in Washington opened his eyes to how decisions arereally made in DC.

When he recounts ultimately accepting his proessorship appoint-

ment at George Mason University, the author marvels, I neverthought Id be working there thirty years later. And throughout thebook, Willams reers to the immeasurable contribution o his wie oorty-eight years, who shared his vision through hard work and love.

Walter E. Williams is the John M. Olin Distinguished Proessor oEconomics at George Mason University and a nationally syndicatedcolumnist. He is the author o several books and more than sixtyarticles that have appeared in scholarly journals such asEconomic Inquiry, American Economic Review, and Social ScienceQuarterlyand popular publications such as Readers Digest,

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Hoover Institution PressEconomics

Race & EconomicsHow Much Can Be Blamed onDiscrimination?

Walter E. Williams

Williams applies an economic analysis to thproblems black Americans have aced in th

past and those they ace in the present to sthat that ree-market resource allocation, asopposed to political allocation, is in the beinterests o minorities.

2011, ca. 174 pagesISBN: 978-0-8179-1244-4 $24.95 cloISBN: 978-0-8179-1245-1 $14.95 pap

Hoover ClassicsFree Markets Under SiegeCartels, Politics, and Social Welare

Richard A. Epstein

Drawing on his extensive knowledge o histlaw, and economics, Epstein examines howto regulate the interace between market chand government interventionand nd a mway between socialism and libertarianism.

2008, 99 pagesISBN: 978-0-8179-4611-1 $14.95 clo

Getting O TrackHow Government Actions andInterventions Caused, Prolonged, andWorsened the Financial Crisis

John B. Taylor

Taylor oers a powerul rejoinder to the all too

pervasive notion that the nancial crisis isindicative o market ailure and thereorerequires a government solution.

Jerry Templetonin Business Economics, the journal o the

National Association o Business Economics

2009, 92 pagesISBN: 978-0-8179-4971-6 $14.95 cloth

Hoover ClassicsThe Flat TaxUpdated Second Edition

Robert E. Hall and Alvin Rabushka

This updated edition o The Flat Taxcalledthe bible o the fat tax movement by Forbesexplains whats wrong with our present taxsystem and oers a practical alternative. Halland Rabushka set orth what many believe isthe most air, ecient, simple, and workable taxreorm plan on the table: tax all income, onceonly, at a uniorm rate o 19 percent.2007, 228 pagesISBN: 978-0-8179-9311-5 $14.95 cloth

Ending Government Bailouts asWe Know ThemEdited by Kenneth E. Scott, George P

Shultz, and John B. Taylor

This book provides strategies designed to ailure tolerable and eliminate the bailoutmentality both now and in the uture. The dguished authors also show that it is indeed sibleand necessaryto explain the causo the crisis in understandable terms and clawhy resolving the bailout problem is essentipreventing uture crises.

2010, 338 pagesISBN: 978-0-8179-1124-5 $19.95 clo

Crony Capitalism and EconomicGrowth in Latin AmericaTheory and Evidence

Edited by Stephen Haber

Crony capitalism systemsin which those closeto political policy makers receive avors allowingthem to earn returns ar above-market valueare a undamental eature o the economies oLatin America. Haber and his expert contributorsdraw rom case studies in Mexico, Brazil, andother countries around the world to examine thecauses and consequences o cronyism.

2002, 157 pagesISBN: 978-0-8179-9962-9 $15.00 paper


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The Essence o StiglerEdited by Kurt R. Leube andThomas G. Moore

Demonstrates the wide scope o Stiglers

interest, his scholarly brilliance, and his contions to the development o twentieth-centureconomic thought and policies.

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1986, 377 pagesISBN: 978-0-8179-8461-8 $34.95 cloISBN: 978-0-8179-8462-5 $20.95 pa

The Essence o HayekEdited by Chiaki Nishiyama andKurt R. Leube

A well-edited selection o 21 papers, essays,

and speeches that refect the diversity, com-plexity, and coherency o Hayeks system othought.

Choice

1984, 419 pagesISBN: 978-0-8179-8011-5 $34.95 clothISBN: 978-0-8179-8012-2 $22.95 paper

The Essence o FriedmanEdited by Kurt R. Leube

This invaluable collection o writings by Nlaureate Milton Friedman seeks to provide essence o his vast and important contributito public and proessional understanding oconduct o economic policy.

Far Eastern Economic R

1987, 566 pages

ISBN: 978-0-8179-8662-9 $24.95 pa

The Essence o BeckerEdited by Ramn Febreroand Pedro S. Schwartz

This collection o his most important essays re-prints . . . Beckers personal overview, compris-ing his Nobel Lecture on the economic way olooking at behavior.

Journal o Economic Literature

1995, 720 pagesISBN: 978-0-8179-9342-9 $25.95 paper

The Road Ahead or the FedEdited by John D. Ciorciari and

John B. Taylor

The Federal Reserve is the single most impo

economic policy institution in the United StaIts recent unprecedented actions and intervtions have raised serious concerns in manyquarters about infation, as well as the independence and eectiveness o the Fed. InRoad Ahead or the Fed, twelve expert authexamine the recent actions o the Federal Rserve and debate key issues on how it cannavigate the road ahead.

2009, 229 pagesISBN: 978-0-8179-5001-9 $19.95 clo

Reacting to the Spending SpreePolicy Changes We Can Aord

Edited by Terry L. Anderson andRichard Sousa

In Reacting to the Spending Spreea team oexpert contributors analyzes the near- and long-termimplications o eorts by both the Obama andthe Bush administrations to x the current nan-cial crisis.

2009, 162 pagesISBN: 978-0-8179-3002-8 $15.00 paper

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New Release


Hoover Institution PressEducation

EducationAssumptions Versus History:Collected Papers

Thomas Sowell

In the papers collected in Education, Sowelltakes a hard look at the state o education

in our schools and universities. His goal is totest the assumptions underlying contemporaryeducational policies and innovations against thehistorical and contemporary evidence.

1986, 203 pagesISBN: 978-0-8179-8112-9 $12.95 paper

Courting FailureHow School Finance LawsuitsExploit Judges Good Intentions andHarm Our Children

Edited by Eric A. Hanushek

The expert contributors to this volume assessrecent court actions in school-adequacy lawand their impact on student outcomes. Theyshow that simply throwing more resources aproblem has not brought about a solution athat call or changes should be centered araccountability, incentives, and more-inorme

parents and policy makers.

2006, 366 pagesISBN: 978-0-8179-4781-1 $25.00 cloISBN: 978-0-8179-4782-8 $15.00 pap

Charter Schools Against the OddsEdited by Paul T. Hill

The expert contributors to this volume tell howstate laws and policies have stacked the deckagainst charter schools by limiting the numbero charter schools allowed in a state, orbiddingor-prot rms rom holding charters, orcing themto pay rent out o operating unds, and otherways. They explain how these policies can beamended to level the playing eld and givecharter schoolsand the children they serveaairer chance to succeed.


Impostors in the TempleA Blueprint or Improving HigherEducation in America

Martin Anderson

In this hard-hitting book about the decayingmoral and intellectual state o US universitie

and colleges today, Anderson shows us hoserious things have become. More importanoers us dramatic solutions.

1996, 265 pagesISBN: 978-0-8179-9442-6 $18.95 pap

Bringing In a New Era inCharacter EducationEdited by William Damon

The authors provide a unique perspective o

what is needed to make character educatioan eective, lasting part o our educationalagenda.

2002, 194 pagesISBN: 978-0-8179-2962-6 $15.00 pap

Advancing Student AchievementHerbert J. Walberg

A renowned educator-psychologist explainshow children learn and how amily, classroom,

and school practices can help them learn moreeectively. In addition to drawing on studies olearning outcomes, the author reveals economicresearch on teacher education and schoolchoice that challenges many popularassumptions.



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Reroute the Preschool JuggernauChester E. Finn, Jr.

Prekindergarten is one o the most hotly contested topics in American education today.Reroute the Preschool Juggernaut, Finn outlinthe issues that dene and conound this contious debate: Which children really need itWho should provide itand at whose expWhats the right balance between educatioand child care? Where does Head Start tWhat are reliable markers o quality in pre-school programs?

2009, 123 pagesISBN: 978-0-8179-4991-4 $15.00 clo

Our Schools and Our Future. . . Are We Still at Risk?

Edited by Paul E. Peterson

This book assesses the changes that have oc-curred in the twenty years since A Nation atRisk, which urged major reorms in American ed-ucation, was issued by the National EducationCommission. The book oers recommendationsbased on three core principlesaccountability,choice, and transparencythat can reinvigoratethe system and rekindle Americas condence inpublic education.


Learning rom No Child Let BehHow and Why the Nations MostImportant but Controversial EducatioLaw Should Be Renewed

John E. ChubbChubb presents a convincing case that, dethe controversy it has ignited, the No ChildLet Behind (NCLB) law is making a positivedierence and should be renewed. He outlten specic lessons and recommendations tidentiy the strengths and weaknesses o Nand oers suggestions or improving the law

2009, 84 pagesISBN: 978-0-8179-4982-2 $10.00 pa

Learning as We GoWhy School Choice Is Worth the Wait

Paul T. Hill

The author examines the real-world actors that

can complicate or delay the positive cause-and-eect relationships identied by the theories be-hind school choice. He explains why schools ochoice havent yet achieved a broader appeal.

2010, 152 pagesISBN: 978-0-8179-1014-3 $19.95 cloth

Tests, Testing, andGenuine School ReormHerbert J. Walberg

The author draws on scientic studies o testsand their use to show how standardizedachievement tests must play a central role in

improving achievement in K12 schools. Heexplains the central considerations in developingand evaluating tests and tells how tests can bestbe used, covering such topics as using tests orstudent incentives, paying teachers or peror-mance, and the use o tests in eorts to attainnew state and national standards.

2011, ca. 90 pagesISBN: 978-0-8179-1354-0 $19.95 cloth

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Hoover Institution PressEnvironment and Energy

Political EnvironmentalismGoing behind the Green Curtain

Edited by Terry L. Anderson

Anderson and his contributors boldly conrontspecic environmental laws, asking whether theywere motivated by environmental or strictly politi-

cal concerns, whether they achieve their goals,whether they are cost-e ective, and whetherthey generate eective or perverse results.

2000, 336 pagesISBN: 978-0-8179-9752-6 $19.95 paper

Greener Than ThouAre You Really an Environmentalist?

Terry L. Anderson andLaura E. Huggins

In a powerul argument or ree-market envi-ronmentalism, Anderson and Huggins oerpragmatic solutions or improving environmequality without necessarily increasing red ta


The CommonsIts Tragedies and Other Follies

Edited by Tibor R. Machan

The contributors examine the tragedy o the

commons and what is aected by that tragWhat is the proper scope o the public reaThe main insight is that human individualityneeds to be properly accommodated in asystem o community lie, in law, and in pubpolicy.

2000, 126 pagesISBN: 978-0-8179-9922-3 $17.95 pap

The Caliornia Electricity CrisisJames L. Sweeney

For policymakers and others with a seriousinterest in getting beyond nger-pointing.

Book News

This is the book to read to understand whathappened and why.

Cato Institute: Regulation


You Have to Admit ItsGetting BetterFrom Economic Prosperityto Environmental Quality

Edited by Terry L. Anderson

Contrary to popular belie, economic grow

not the antithesis o environmental quality; rathe two go hand in hand i the incentives aright. The authors show how, by developingand protecting the institutions o reedom rathan regulating human use o natural resourthrough political processes, we can have oenvironmental cake and eat it too.

2004, 212 pagesISBN: 978-0-8179-4482-7 $15.00 pap

Corn EthanolWho Pays? Who Beneits?

Ken G. Glozer

The author documents the political history oederal corn ethanol policy, showing how it hasevolved rom 1977 through 2008. He thenoers an in-depth, act-based look at the majorassertions made by the advocates o the policy,providing the results o an evaluation o theclaims made by the architects o the RenewalFuels Standard in 2005 during its considerationby Congress.

2011, 256 pagesISBN: 978-0-8179-4961-7 $19.95 cloth


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Implications o the Reykjavik Summiton Its Twentieth AnniversaryConerence Report

Edited by Sidney D. Drell andGeorge P. Shultz

Drawn rom presentations at the Hoover Institu-tions conerence on the twentieth anniversaryo the Reykjavik summit, this collection o essaysexamines the legacy o that historic meetingbetween Presidents Ronald Reagan and MikhailGorbachev.


Freedom or TerrorEurope Faces Jihad

Russell A. Berman

In his analysis o Europes ambivalence towjihadist terror and the spread o aggressiveIslamism, with particular emphasis on theEuropean responsesor lack thereotoIslamist terrorism, Berman describes how soEuropean countries opt or appeasing andapologizing or terror, whereas others standor reedom.

2010, 224 pagesISBN: 978-0-8179-1114-0 $19.95 pa

Discovering the Hidden ListenerAn Assessment o Radio Liberty andWestern Broadcasting to the USSR dur-ing the Cold War

R. Eugene Parta

This overview o the impact o Western radioand Radio Libertyrom the listeners perspec-tiveaddresses questions o audience size andlistening trends over time, demographic traitsand attitudes, and more. Based on more than50,000 interviews with Soviet citizens, the booksheds light on what these broadcasts meant

to listeners as the USSR moved toward a reersociety.

2007, 116 pagesISBN: 978-0-8179-4732-3 $15.00 paper

Hoover ClassicsAnti-Americanism in EuropeA Cultural Problem

Russell A. Berman

A revealing look at how, as the process o cold war European unication has progressanti-Americanism has proven to be a useulideology or the denition o a new Europeidentity. The author details its elementssocultural, some irrationaland tells why it is to remain a eature o relations between theUnited States and Europe or the oreseeabuture.

2008, 186 pagesISBN: 978-0-8179-4512-1 $14.95 clo

Americans and EuropeansDancing in the DarkOn Our Dierences and Ainities, OurInterests, and Our Habits o Lie

Dennis L. BarkBark oers an in-depth examination o thedeteriorating relationship between Americaand Europe: our dierences and similarities, thereasons behind our conficts, and the uture oour alliance.

Those interested in how culture and historyshape our worldview will be unable to put thebook down.

Choice

2007, 373 pagesISBN: 978-0-8179-4802-3 $15.00 paper

Islamic Extremism andthe War o IdeasLessons rom Indonesia

John Hughes

Hughes examines lessons learned rom the po public diplomacy and broadcasting in the

war and tells how the United States could meectively counter extremism, promote demoand improve understanding o itsel in the Islaworld. He oers Indonesia as an example omelding o democracy, Islam, and modernitysuggests that this country and other nations wIslam and democracy coexist could play a scant role in helping thwart Islamist extremism

2010, 139 pagesISBN: 978-0-8179-1164-5 $19.95 clo

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Hoover Institution PressForeign Aairs

Israels UnilateralismBeyond Gaza

Robert Zelnick

Emmy Awardwinning journalist Zelnick exam-

ines Israels disengagement rom Gaza andwhat it might lead to in the uture. He details thethought behind the policy and the impact o theloss o Ariel Sharon, analyzes the Palestinianresponse rom both moderates and Hamas, andunderscores the politically realist-minded assump-tions that continue to drive the policy orward.

2006, 170 pagesISBN: 978-0-8179-4772-9 $15.00 paper

Living with the UNAmerican Responsibilities andInternational Order

Kenneth Anderson

International legal scholar Kenneth Andersonlyzes US-UN relations in each major aspect UNs worksecurity, human rights and univevalues, and developmentand oers workapractical principles o US policy toward the He addresses the crucial question o whethewhen, and how the United States should engor not engage with the United Nations in eaits many dierent organs and activities.

2011, ca. 250 pagesISBN: 978-0-8179-1344-1 $19.95 clo

Managing American HegemonyEssays on Power in a Timeo Dominance

Kori N. Schake

An insightul look at US power: why its sopredominant in the international order, whetherits likely to remain so, and how to revise currentpractices to reduce the US cost o managingthe system.

2009, 208 pagesISBN: 978-0-8179-4901-3 $25.00 cloth

ISBN: 978-0-8179-4902-0 $15.00 paper

NATOIts Past, Present, and Future

Peter Duignan

The story o the most successul peacetimeventure in Western cooperation, rom its shakybeginnings to its cold war triumphs, ailures,

and successes.2000, 149 pagesISBN: 978-0-8179-9782-3 $16.95 paper

The Myth o the Great SatanA New Look at Americas Relationswith Iran

Abbas Milani

This critical review o the history o Americarelations with Iran shows how little o the twcountries long and complicated relationshipis refected in the oundational axioms o theGreat Satan myth. The author explains whmeaningul and equitable relations can begonly ater the two nations have arrived at acommon, critical, and accurate reading o t

past.2010, 148 pagesISBN: 978-0-8179-1134-8 $19.95 clo

Reykjavik RevisitedSteps Toward a World Free o NucleWeaponsComplete Report o 200Hoover Institution Conerence

Edited by George P. Shultz,Steven P. Andreasen, Sidney D. Drell,

and James E. GoodbyThis collection o essays examines the pracsteps necessary to address the current secuchallenges o nuclear weapons and to movtoward the Reykjavik goal o eliminating allnuclear weapons.

C2008, 414 pagesISBN: 978-0-8179-4921-1 $25.00 cloISBN: 978-0-8179-4922-8 $15.00 pap


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Unconditional DemocracyEducation and Politics in OccupiedJapan,19451952

Toshio Nishi

A careully researched survey o Japan undAllied military occupation rom August 1945the San Francisco Peace Conerence o 195

Pacifc A

Fascinating and instructive.AsiaW

2003, 367 pagesISBN: 978-0-8179-7442-8 $15.00 pa

Copublished with Rowman & LittleieldVictorious and VulnerableWhy Democracy Won in the 20thCentury and How it is Still Imperiled

Azar Gat

The democratic peace, or near absence o war

among themselves, is a unique eature o liberaldemocracies oreign policy behavior. Arguingthat this is merely one maniestation o muchmore sweeping and less recognized pacisttendencies typical o liberal democracies, Gatoers a panoramic view o their distinctive wayin confict and war.

To order, contactRowman & Littlefeld at 800.462.6420

2009, 140 pagesISBN: 978-0-4422-0114-9 $29.95 cloth

Turning Points in Endingthe Cold WarEdited by Kiron K. Skinner

Insightul essays by exper t contributors explainthe how and why behind the end o the coldwar. They detail the strategies o the key play-ersincluding Reagan, Gorbachev, Yeltsin, andothersand the monumental events that led tothe ultimate collapse o communism.

2008, 366 pagesISBN: 978-0-8179-4631-9 $25.00 cloth

ISBN: 978-0-8179-4632-6 $15.00 paper

The Struggle across theTaiwan StraitThe Divided China Problem

Ramon H. Myers and Jialin Zhang

This book tells how China divided in 1949 intotwo regimes, why those regimes struggled toachieve the same political goalreunicationand why their struggle continues today in a morecomplex and dangerous way. The authors detailhow the changes brought about by the 2000election not only intensied the confict betweenthe regimes but locked both sides into a newcontest that increased the probability o war.

2006, 168 pagesISBN: 978-0-8179-4692-0 $15.00 paper

Torn CountryTurkey: Between Secularism & Islami

Zeyno Baran

Baran examines the intense struggle betwee

Turkeys secularists and Islamists in their mosrecent battles over their countrys destinatioLooking into the ate o both Turkeys seculaism and its democratic experiment, she showthat, or all the faws o its political journey, modern Turkish state has managed to mainan essential separation between religion anthe political realma separation that is nowjeopardy.

2010, 173 pagesISBN: 978-0-8179-1144-7 $19.95 clo

The WaveMan, God, and the Ballot Box in theMiddle East

Reuel Marc Gerecht

Middle East expert Reuel Marc Gerecht argthat the Middle East may actually be at the

beginning o a momentous democratic wavwhose convulsions could become the regiodening theme during Obamas presidencydescribes the powerul Middle Eastern demcratic movements coming rom both the let right and argues that America must reassessdemocracys supposed lack o a uture in thregion.

2011, 148 pagesISBN: 978-0-8179-1334-2 $19.95 clo

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Hoover Institution PressForeign Aairs

The Ideological Struggle or PakistanZiad Haider

This assessment o the struggle or Pakistans

identity, rom its birth in 1947 to the present day,provides a political and cultural understandingo the role and use o Islam in its evolution. Theauthor, a Pakistani scholar, shows how Pakistansviability as a state depends in large part on itsability to develop a new and progressive Islamicnarrative.

2010, 64 pagesISBN: 978-0-8179-1085-3 $9.95 paper

Saudi Arabia and the NewStrategic Landscape

Joshua Teitelbaum

Teitelbaum evaluates Saudi oreign policy in Persian Gul and in the Arab- Israeli peace prcess and provides a shrewd assessment o thSaudi-US relationship. He debunks the traditial view o Saudi oreign policy that emphasithe Saudi concern with the Israeli-Palestinianconfict and explains how the true concern oArabias rulers is the ideological battle that hbeen opened up by Irans push into Arab a

2010, 80 pagesISBN: 978-0-8179-1105-8 $9.95 paper

Islamism and the Future o theChristians o the Middle EastHabib C. Malik

This sobering account documents the ordealo Christian Arabs in the Middle East in thecurrent era o Islamist radicalism. Although thoseChristians are leaving their homelands in recordnumbers, the author laments, the powers o theWest have shown little interest in their ate.

2010, 80 pages

ISBN: 978-0-8179-1095-2 $9.95 paper

Syria through Jihadist EyesA Perect Enemy

Nibras Kazimi

With eld notes accumulated in a Syrianenvironment not generally hospitable to reseaand inquiry, Kazimi provides a unique view the Syrian regime and its base at home, llina void in our understanding o the intelligencbarons and soldiers who run that country. Heoers a look at the tactical, propagandist, astrategic ingredients required, in jihadist eyes

a successul jihadand whether those ingreents are available in Syria.

2010, 123 pagesISBN: 978-0-8179-1075-4 $9.95 paper


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Power to the PatientSelected Health Care Issues andPolicy Solutions

Edited by Scott W. Atlas, M.D.

The United States has the costliest health caresystem per capita in the world. The debaterages on over how to cope with the rising costso medical care. Proposed solutions range roma single-payer system with broad governmentcontrol to loosely dened market-driven plans.The authors look at three key elements o healthcare costs and oer thoughtul, realistic sugges-

tions to help stem the tide o rising expenses oreveryone.

2005, 62 pagesISBN: 978-0-8179-4592-3 $15.00 paper

Healthy, Wealthy, and WiseFive Steps to a Better Health Care SySecond edition

John F. Cogan, R. Glenn Hubbard, a

Daniel P. KesslerIn this second edition o their 2005 work, theauthors oer market-based alternatives to recehealth care reorms that center on tax changeinsurance market changes, and the redesign Medicare and Medicaid. They show that, bymoting cost-conscious behavior and competitin both private markets and government progwe can slow the rate o growth o health carcosts and expand access to quality health ca

2011, 152 pagesISBN: 978-0-8179-1064-8 $19.95 clo

Health Reorm without Side EectsMaking Markets Work or IndividualHealth Insurance

Mark V. Pauly

Pauly oers a detailed look at the individualinsurance market in the United States. He ex-plains how it works and suggests approaches toimprovement that build on what currently workswell. He concludes that although there aresome serious deciencies in todays individualinsurance market, there are also some impor-tant advantages in this market that should bepreserved.

2010, 112 pagesISBN: 978-0-8179-1044-0 $19.95 cloth

Reorming AmericasHealth Care SystemThe Flawed Vision o ObamaCare

Edited by Scott W. Atlas, M.D.

Health policy experts rom the United StatesCanada, and Western Europe discuss bothwhat to expect rom the recent health reormlegislation and alternatives that should still bconsidered. The contributors argue that Amecans already have a superior health care syand that i Congress enacts reorms that remarticial barriers and constructively open ma

to competition, private-sector creativity willgenerate innovative, low-cost insurance proor tens o millions o consumers.

2010, 182 pagesISBN: 978-0-8179-1274-1 $19.95 clo

Eight Questions You Should AskAbout Our Health Care System(Even i the Answers Make You Sick)

Charles E. Phelps

Phelps provides a comprehensive look at ourhealth care system, including how the current

system evolved, how the health care sector be-haves, and a detailed analysis o the good, thebad, and the ugly parts o the systemromtechnological advances (the good) to variationsin treatment patterns (the bad) to hidden costsand perverse incentives (the ugly).

2010, 162 pagesISBN: 978-0-8179-1054-9 $19.95 cloth



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Hoover Institution PressNew Name Here

Hoover Institution PressHistory

Freedom BetrayedHerbert Hoovers Secret History o thSecond World War and Its Atermat

Edited by George H. Nash

Herbert Hoovers Magnum Opusbeingpublished at last nearly ty years ater itscompletionoers a revisionist reexaminatio World War II and its cold war atermathand a sweeping indictment o the lost statemanship o Franklin Roosevelt. Hoover oehis rank evaluation o Roosevelts oreignpolicies beore Pearl Harbor and policies

during the war, as well as an examinationo the wars consequences.

2011, ca. 920 pagesISBN: 978-0-8179-1234-5 $49.95 clo

The End o Modern History in theMiddle EastBernard Lewis

Lewis looks at the new era in the Middle East:with the departure o imperial powers, theregion must now on its own resolve the political,economic, cultural, and societal problems thatprevent it rom accomplishing the next stagein the advance o civilization.There is enoughin the traditional culture o Islam on the onehand and the modern experience o the Muslimpeoples on the other, he explains, to provide the

basis or an advance toward reedom in the truesense o that word.

2011, 188 pagesISBN: 978-0-8179-1294-9 $19.95 cloth

Courage under FireTesting Epictetuss Doctrines in aLaboratory o Human Behavior

James B. Stockdale

When physical disability rom combat woubrought about Jim Stockdales early retiremerom military lie, he had the distinction o bthe only three-star ocer in the history o thenavy to wear both aviator wings and theCongressional Medal o Honor. His writinghave been many and varied, but all converon the central theme o how man can rise wdignity to prevail in the ace o adversity.

1993, 21 pagesISBN: 978-0-8179-3692-1 $5.00 paper

Boris PasternakFamily Correspondence 19211960

Translated by Nicholas Pasternak Slater

This selection o Boris Pasternaks correspon-

dence with his parents and sisters rom 1921to 1960including illustrations and photosisan authoritative, indispensable introduction andguide to the great writers lie and work. His let-ters are accomplished literary works in their ownright, on a par with his poetry in their intensityand rankness. They are especially poignant inthat ater 1923 Pasternak was never to see hisamily again.


Politics, Murder, and Love inStalins KremlinThe Story o Nikolai Bukharin andAnna Larina

Paul R. Gregory

Drawing rom Hoover Institution archival doc

ments, Gregory sheds light on how the worldrst socialist state went terribly wrong and wit was likely to veer o course through the trastory o Stalins most prominent victims: Pravdeditor Nikolai Bukharin and his wie, Anna L


Lenins Brain and Other Tales romthe Secret Soviet ArchivesPaul R. Gregory

With a narrative style that is simple and lucidthe book makes acinating reading, proving thewisdom o that age-old adage that truth is oten

stranger than ction.S. V. Raju,Freedom First

2008, 164 pagesISBN: 978-0-8179-4812-2 $15.00 paper


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A Vietnam ExperienceTen Years o Relection

James B. Stockdale

The Medal o Honor was awarded to Adm

Stockdale, who spent seven and a hal yeain a Hanoi prison. He survived because o character and his values.

An uncommon man with much to teach evgeneration o Americans. . . . Contact HooPress and invest the time it takes to read147 pages by Admiral Stockdale.

Stephanie SSan Francisco Exa

1984, 147 pagesISBN: 978-0-8179-8152-5 $9.95 pape

Thoughts o a PhilosophicalFighter Pilot

James B. Stockdale

No air-minded reader can depar t these pages

without deep admiration or Stockdale and orthe stoic philosophy he propounds. . . . This is abook to be read, pondered, and cherished.

Airpower Journal

It is dicult to do justice to this important,inormative, and well-documented book. It is amonument to scholarship.

U.S. Naval Institution, Proceedings

1995, 245 pagesISBN: 978-0-8179-9392-4 $15.95 paper

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Hoover Institution PressStudies o National it ies

The LatviansA Short History

Andrejs Plakans

Now when asked to recommend a book

. . . one may condently point to Plakanssvolume. It reads well, holds ones interest, acovers complicated and generally unamiliaritory in a manner that is both intelligent andintelligible to the neophyte.

Journal o Baltic St

1995, 257 pagesISBN: 978-0-8179-9302-3 $24.95 pape

The KazakhsSecond Edition

Martha Brill Olcott

The Kazakhs is quite simply the best one-vol-

ume introduction we have to any o the tradition-ally Islamic peoples o the [ormer] USSR.

Middle East Journal

1995, 388 pagesISBN: 978-0-8179-9352-8 $20.95 paper

Estonia and the EstoniansSecond Edition, Updated

Toivo U. Raun

Excellent, timely study.Russian Re

Rauns book remains apremiere reerence resource.

Journal o International St

2001, 366 pagesISBN: 978-0-8179-2852-0 $24.95 pape

The Czechs and the Lands o theBohemian CrownHugh Agnew

In this rst up-to-date, single-volume history othe Czechs, Agnew provides an introduction tothe major themes and contours o Czech historyor the general readerrom prehistory and therst Slavs to the Czech Republics entry into theEuropean Union.


The Crimean TatarsAlan W. Fisher

Proessor Fishers excellent book is brie buclear and succinct. It should be required rea

or all students o Russian and European hisSlavic Re

1978, 264 pagesISBN: 978-0-8179-6662-1 $17.95 pape

The Azerbaijani TurksPower and Identity underRussian Rule

Audrey L. Altstadt

Altstadts book does a masterly job o analyz-ing the complex relationship between Azerbai-jan and its colonizers over an extended period.

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The Volga TatarsA Proile in National Resilience

Azade-Ayse Rorlich

A magnicent book.

American Library Book Re

1986, 288 pagesISBN: 978-0-8179-8391-8 $31.95 clothISBN: 978-0-8179-8392-5 $19.95 pape

The MoldovansRomania, Russia, and thePolitics o Culture

Charles King

Charles King presents a convincing, nonparti-san synthesis o Moldovan identity.

Slavic Review

2000, 303 pagesISBN: 978-0-8179-9792-2 $24.95 paper

The Modern UzbeksFrom the Fourteenth Century to thePresent: A Cultural History

Edward A. Allworth

An essential work or students o Russia andSoviet Union.

C

1990, 410 pagesISBN: 978-0-8179-8732-9 $24.95 pape

Macedonia andthe MacedoniansA History

Andrew Rossos

The history o Macedonia rom 600 bc tothe present day, revealing how Macedoniasstruggle to establish a national identity is stillgoing on.


Questions and answers about issues that matter!

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Hoover Institution PressHoover Classics

Remaking DomesticIntelligenceRichard A. Posner

The author reveals the dangerous weaknessesundermining domestic intelligence in the UnitedStates and tells why a new national security

service should not be part o the FBI. He ex-plains the need or a new domestic intelligenceagency, modeled on the Canadian SecurityIntelligence Service and lodged in the Depart-ment o Homeland Security.

2011, 122 pagesISBN: 978-0-8179-4681-4 $14.95 cloth

Free Markets Under SiegeCartels, Politics, & Social Welare

Richard A. Epstein

Drawing on his extensive knowledge o hislaw, and economics, Epstein examines howto regulate the interace between market chand government interventionand nd a mway between socialism and libertarianism. the process, he provides an analysis o somthe ways that special interest groups, with thelp o sympathetic politicians, have been to manipulate ree markets in their avor.

2008, 99 pagesISBN: 978-0-8179-4611-1 $14.95 clo

Property RightsA Practical Guide to Freedom andProsperity

Terry L. Anderson and Laura E. Huggins

Drawing on the thoughts o various philoso-phers, political thinkers, economists, and law-

yers, Property Rights presents a blueprint or thenonexpert on how societies can encourage ordiscourage reedom and prosperity through theirproperty rights institutions. It details step by stepwhat property rights are, how they evolve, howthey can be protected, and how they promote

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The Flat TaxUpdated Second Edition

Robert E. Hall and Alvin Rabushka

This updated edition o The Flat Taxcalled

the bible o the fat tax movementexplawhats wrong with our present tax system aoers a practical alternative. Hall and Rabuset orth what many believe is the most air,cient, simple, and workable tax reorm plathe table: tax all income, once only, at a unrate o 19 percent.

2007, 228 pagesISBN: 978-0-8179-9311-5 $14.95 clo

Anti-Americanism in EuropeA Cultural Problem

Russell A. Berman

The author shows how, as the process o post

cold war European unication has progressed,anti-Americanism has proven a useul ideologyor dening a new European identity. He detailsthe elementssome cultural, some simplyirrationalin this disturbing movement and tellswhy it is likely to remain a eature o relationsbetween the United States and Europe or theoreseeable uture.

2008, 186 pagesISBN: 978-0-8179-4511-4 $14.95 cloth

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Pension WiseConronting Employer PensionUnderundingAnd Sparing Taxpaythe Next Bailout

Charles BlahousBlahous, one o the nations oremost retire-ment security experts, explains the origins adangers o current underunding in our singemployer dened-benet pension system anoutlines the options or solving the problem preventing the next taxpayer-nanced bailo

2011, 90 pagesISBN: 978-0-8179-1214-7 $19.95 clo

Death GripLoosening the Laws Stranglehold overEconomic Liberty

Clint Bolick

Bolick examines the assault on economicliberty brought about by the nineteenth-centurySlaughter-House Cases. He explains how thosecases nullied the privileges (or immunities)clause o the Fourteenth Amendment and howthe repercussions continue to maniest themselvestoday. Bolick oers hope or the uture, however,as he describes the current campaign to restoreeconomic liberty as a undamental civil right.

2011, 88 pagesISBN: 978-0-8179-1314-4 $19.95 cloth

Why Government Is the ProblemMilton Friedman

Friedman discusses a government system this no longer controlled by we, the people.stead o Lincolns government o the peoplthe people, and or the people, we now ha government o the people, by the bureacrats, or the bureaucrats.

1993, 18 pagesISBN: 978-0-8179-5442-0 $5.00 paper

Hoover ClassicsProperty RightsA Practical Guide toFreedom and Prosperity

Terry L. Anderson and Laura E. Huggins

Drawing on the thoughts o various philoso-phers, political thinkers, economists, and law-

yers, Property Rights presents a blueprint or thenonexpert on how societies can encourage ordiscourage reedom and prosperity through theirproperty rights institutions. It details step by stepwhat property rights are, how they evolve, howthey can be protected, and how they promotereedom and prosperity.

2009, 116 pagesISBN: 978-0-8179-3691-3 $14.95 cloth

Social SecurityThe Uninished Work

Charles Blahous

Arguing that an equitable Social Securitysolution will be unattainable unless we brinstakeholders together around a common unstanding o the acts and o the need to takaction to address them, ormer White Housadviser Blahous presents some oten misundstood, basic actual background about SocSecurity. He discusses how it aects prograparticipants and explains the true demogra

economic, and political actors that threateuture ecacy.

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Copublished with Rowman & LittleieldStay o ExecutionSaving the Death Penalty rom Itsel

Charles Lane

The United States stands alone as the onlyWestern democracy that still practices capital

punishment. Yet the American death penalty hasgone into noticeable decline, with annual deathsentences and executions dwindling steadily inrecent years. In Stay o Execution, Lane oers aresh analysis o this unexpected trend and itsmoral and political implications.

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The Gravest DangerNuclear Weapons

Sidney D. Drell and James E. Goodby

A comprehensive review o the main policy is-sues and related implications surrounding eortsto contain the prolieration o nuclear weapons

around the world.2003, 134 pagesISBN: 978-0-8179-4472-8 $15.00 paper

The Future oAmerican IntelligenceEdited by Peter Berkowitz

These essays rom a diverse group o distinguished contributors deepen our understando the new national security threats posed bterrorism, by the prolieration o weapons omass destruction, and by the spread o Islaextremism. They examine the obstacles to ming US intelligence more capable and o errecommendations or eective reorm.

2005, 185 pagesISBN: 978-0-8179-4662-3 $15.00 pap

Copublished with Rowman & LittleieldCountering TerrorismBlurred Focus, Halting Steps

Richard A. Posner

In this third book in a series on intelligencereorm, Posner evaluates the measures that havebeen taken to implement the Intelligence ReormAct o 2004, which decreed a wholesale reor-ganization o the intelligence system.To order, contact


2007, 248 pagesISBN: 978-0-7425-5883-0 $22.95 cloth

Communicating with theWorld o IslamEdited by A. Ross Johnson,Principal Report by George P. Shultz

Drawing rom lessons learned during the cowar broadcasting experience, Communicatwith the World o Islam suggests the best wto organize US eorts to communicate withIslamic world. It examines the impact o theVoice o America, Radio Free Europe, and broadcasting tools and suggests how we cuse these instruments today to reach Islamiccommunities around the globe.

2008, 73 pagesISBN: 978-0-8179-4822-1 $10.00 pap

The Best Deense?Legitimacy and Preventive Force

Abraham D. Sofaer

A practical guide to identiying and considering

the issues relevant to uses o preventive orce, inthe hope that such uses o orce, i undertaken,will advance national and international securityand the purposes o the United Nations Charter.


Copublished with Rowman & LittleiePreventing Surprise AttacksIntelligence Reorm in theWake o 9/11

Richard A. Posner

In a searing critique, Posner exposes the pit

created by the Intelligence Reorm and Terroism Prevention Act o 2004, identies the isoverlooked by the 9/11 commission and Cgress, and suggests directions or real reorTo order, contact


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Hoover ClassicsRemaking Domestic IntelligenceRichard A. Posner

The author reveals the dangerous weaknesses

undermining domestic intelligence in the UnitedStates and tells why a new national securityservice should not be part o the FBI. He ex-plains the need or a new domestic intelligenceagency, modeled on the Canadian SecurityIntelligence Service and lodged in the Depart-ment o Homeland Security.

2011, 122 pagesISBN: 978-0-8179-4681-4 $14.95 cloth

Copublished with Rowman & LittleieWarrant or TerrorThe Fatwas o Radical Islam and theDuty to Jihad

Shmuel Bar

Warrant or Terrorexamines atwaslegal

opinions as to whether a given act under Isis obligatory, permitted, or orbiddenasinstruments by which religious leaders impetheir believers to engage in terrorism. The araises a number o provocative questions awhat the Wests policy should be in the acthe threat o Islamic extremism.

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2006, 134 pagesISBN: 978-0-7425-5120-6 $21.95 clo

Copublished with Rowman & LittleieldUncertain ShieldThe US Intelligence System in theThroes o Reorm

Richard A. Posner

Posners continued study o reorms in our intel-

ligence structure since 9/11 is illuminating andconstructive. Uncertain Shieldmakes a majorcontribution to the debate over how best toensure Americas security.

Henry A. KissingerTo order, contact


2006, 256 pagesISBN: 978-0-7425-5127-5 $19.95 cloth

Terrorism, the Laws o War, andthe ConstitutionDebating the EnemyCombatant Cases

Edited by Peter Berkowitz

This book examines three o the war on terror-isms most signicant enemy combatant casesPadilla, Hamdi, and Rasuland analyzes thecrucial questions they raise about the balancebetween national security and civilliberties in wartime.

2005, 196 pagesISBN: 978-0-8179-4622-7 $15.00 paper

Trial o a Thousand YearsWorld Order and Islamism

Charles Hill

Hill analyzes the reusal o the ideologueso pan-Islam to accept the boundaries andresponsibilities o the order o states. He oa historical perspective on the war o Islamagainst the nation-state system, looking atchanges in world order rom the Thirty YeaWar o the seventeenth century to Irans Islarevolution in 1979 to the overthrow o SaddHussein in Iraq.

2011, 182 pagesISBN: 978-0-7425-1324-3 $19.95 clo

Skating on StiltsWhy We Arent Stopping TomorrowTerrorism

Stewart A. Baker

Baker, a ormer Homeland Security ocialexamines the technologies we lovejet tracomputer networks, and biotechand ndthey are likely to empower new orms o terism unless we change our current course a degrees and overcome resistance to changrom business, oreign governments, and pradvocates.

2010, 370 pagesISBN: 978-0-8179-1154-6 $19.95 clo

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Ever Wonder Why?and Other Controversial Essays

Thomas Sowell

Sowell takes aim at a range o legal, sociaracial, educational, and economic issues inthis collection o his controversial, never bor

always thought-provoking essays. From guncontrol myths to mealy mouth media to lunch medicine, Sowell gets to the hear t omatters we all care about with his charactecally unsparing candor.

2006, 460 pagesISBN: 978-0-8179-4752-1 $15.00 pap

Do the Right ThingThe Peoples Economist Speaks

Walter E. Williams

Williams oers thought-provoking essays onrace, government, education, environment, lawand society, international politics, and other

controversial topics.1995, 183 pagesISBN: 978-0-8179-9382-5 $15.95 paper

A Country I Do Not RecognizeThe Legal Assault on American Valu

Edited By Robert Bork

In this collection, edited and with an introduby Robert Bork, the contributors show how cent legal decisions have seriously undermiAmericas sovereignty and values. They exaissues o international law, religious reedomand the right to privacy, revealing how actiboth at home and abroad have used the coto circumvent ordinary political processes.

2005, 196 pagesISBN: 978-0-8179-4602-9 $15.00 pap

Controversial EssaysThomas Sowell

Sowell, one o conservatisms most articulatevoices, dissects todays most important eco-nomic, racial, political, educational, legal,and social issues, sharing his entertaining andthought-provoking insights on a wide range ocontentious subjects.

This book contains an abundance o wisdomon a large number o economic issues.

Mises Review

2002, 321 pagesISBN: 978-0-8179-2992-3 $15.00 paper

Copublished with Rowman & LittleieConfrmation WarsPreserving Independent Courts inAngry Times

Benjamin WittesIn Confrmation Wars, Washington Postedwriter Wittes examines the degradation o tjudicial nominations process during the pasty yearsincluding the recent conrmatioo Chie Justice John Roberts and Justice SamAlito.

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Barbarians Insidethe Gatesand Other Controversial Essays

Thomas Sowell

Combining reason and common sense with

statistical evidence, Sowell once again cutsthrough the stereotypes, popular mythology,and mush surrounding the critical issues acingthe American social, economic, political, legal,racial, and education scenes.

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More Liberty MeansLess GovernmentOur Founders Knew This Well

Walter E. Williams

Williams takes on the let wings most sacredcows with brutal candor and an uncompromis-

ing reverence or personal liberty.

1999, 264 pagesISBN: 978-0-8179-9612-3 $18.95 paper

Looking Backward and ForwardPolicy Issues in the Twenty-irst Centu

Charles Wolf Jr.

This collection o twenty-ve essays written international economic policy expert CharleWol Jr. covers a range o worldwide econpolitical, security, and diplomatic issues. Wlooks at the challenges acing the United Sat home and around the globe, including cissues regarding Asia, the Middle East, andother key locales.2008, 165 pagesISBN: 978-0-8179-4871-9 $25.00 cloISBN: 978-0-8179-4872-6 $15.00 pa

Liberty Versus the Tyrannyo SocialismControversial Essays

Walter E. Williams

In this wide-ranging collection o his newspapercolumns, Williams presents an unyielding de-ense o personal liberty and oers h

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