From the Laissez Fair Books website.
Laissez Faire Books is pleased to announce the creation of the Lysander Spooner Awards for Advancing the Literature of Liberty. The honor will be awarded monthly to the most important contributions to the literature of liberty, followed by an annual award to the author of the top book on liberty for the year. The annual “Spooner” earns $1,500 cash for the winning author.
LFB.com visitors are invited to place their votes now for finalists for the 2004 Spooner Award, honoring the best book on liberty published in 2003. . . . The nominees are:
Anne Applebaum, Gulag: A History.
David Bernstein, You Can’t Say That!.
Clint Bolick, Voucher Wars.
James Bovard, Terrorism and Tyranny.
Bruce Caldwell, Hayek’s Challenge.
George Crile, Charlie Wilson’s War.
Thomas Fleming, Illusion of Victory.
Philip Harvey, Government Creep.
John Lott, Bias Against Guns.
Tibor Machan, Passion for Liberty.
Charles Murray, Human Accomplishment.
Johan Norberg, In Defense of Global Capitalism.
Walter Olsen, Rule of Lawyers.
Virginia Postrel, Substance of Style.
Jacob Sollum, Saying Yes.
Richard Stroup, Eco-nomics.
Peter Wood, Diversity.The top four vote-getters will then be submitted to a jury, to be made up of members of the Center for Independent Thought (LFB’s parent organization) board of directors, as well as other prominent libertarians and scholars, for the final award selection, to be announced in March.
Click here to go to the page where you can vote.
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