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Article: Transformation: The Promise and Politics of Empowerment.(Review)
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- March 1, 1999
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by Clint Bolick, Oakland, Calif.: Institute for Contemporary Studies, 166 pages, $21.95
Libertarian public interest lawyer Clint Bolick is rightly esteemed for aggressively defending the right of ordinary people to pursue their callings free from the clutch of the bureaucratic state. In doing so he has become one of the modern-day heroes of economic liberty, individual opportunity, and equality before the law. In Transformation he sets forth a clear-headed picture of what Americans can become if only government will change the rules to foster enterprise instead of dependency.
Texas' Teen Challenge is one of the many illuminating examples Bolick offers ...