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- catalog description "Grassroots Tyranny combines an original and insightful theory of federalism with an analysis of political conflicts that are in today's headlines. Bolick cuts through the murky liberal and conservative theories to offer a clear and refreshing perspective on such contemporary issues as Cincinnati's censorship of Robert Mapplethorpe's photography, South Carolina's taking of David Lucas's beachfront property, the Los Angeles police beating of Rodney King, Georgia's intrusion into Michael Hardwick's bedroom, Detroit's seizure of homes in the Poletown neighborhood, and the District of Columbia's attempt to prevent Ego Brown and Taalib-Din Abdul Uqdah from starting small businesses. From censorship to affirmative action, rent control to drug raids, Bolick shows how state and local governments threaten our freedom and deny us economic opportunity. In all of these cases, issues of federalism are central. ".