The struggle to limit government

"As revealed by John Samples in his essential new book, the battle over the size and role of government has been raging for decades. Arriving at a critical time, with clashes over limiting government occupying more battlefields than ever, The Struggle to Limit Government chronicles this war's history, as well as its implications for the future." "In examining the high and low points of the nearly 30-year struggle, from the Reagan revolution to the Obama administration, Samples first provides a fascinating look at the institutions and policies created by progressives from 1933 to 1968 - the New Deal and Great Society - and their influence on all that has followed. "The institutions and policies of the old regime created both a politics of entitlement and a people who favor the persistence of such benefits," writes Samples.^ "It fostered a dependence on government amongst a people culturally disposed to liberty."" "Samples then assesses the rise, successes, and failures of Ronald Reagan, the historic 1994 elections, and the ensuing unsuccessful struggles to fulfill Reagan's goal of reversing government's growth. He traces the drift of the Republican majority in Congress, and the epic