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Tanner, Michael D. Leviathan on the Right: How Big-Government Conservatism Brought Down the Republican Revolution. Cato, dist. by National Bk. Network. 2007. ISBN 1-933995-00-9 [ISBN 978-1-933995-00-7]. $22.95. POL SCI
Since President Bill Clinton proclaimed the demise of big government in a State of the Union address, the federal government "spends more, regulates us more, and reaches far more into our daily lives than it did before the Republican Revolution." This is the thesis of Tanner (director, health & welfare studies, Cato Inst.; Social Security and Its Discontents), who argues that the Republican Party, "supposedly …