Mugged by the State

It's a scandal--the misguided government policies and overzealous enforcement that have victimized ordinary Americans. That's the story Randall Fitzgerald tells in Mugged by the State. Fitzgerald uncovers example after example of government harassment, including: a woman taken to jail for not wearing a seatbelt; a family diner seized under eminent domain laws; a couple who found army helicopters hovering over their land in a dispute over wetlands; and others.

Fitzgerald, a longtime reporter for Reader's Digest, gives a voice to the countless Americans around the country whose freedoms are being violated by the very government that should be protecting them.

Randall Fitzgerald is the author of six previous books on a wide variety of subjects, including When Government Goes Private (Universe Books) and Pork Barrel (Cato Institute). He spent two decades as a contributing writer with Reader's Digest and has written for the Wall Street Journal and the Washington Post. He lives in Napa, California.