Anita Folsom: 3 books

Book cover of FDR Goes to War

FDR Goes to War

How Expanded Executive Power, Spiraling National Debt, and Restricted Civil Liberties Shaped Wartime America

by Burton W. Folsom Jr., Anita Folsom
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2011

From the acclaimed author of New Deal or Raw Deal?, called “eye-opening” by the National Review, comes a fascinating exposé of Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s destructive wartime legacy—and its adverse impact on America’s economic and foreign policies today. Did World War II really end...
Book cover of Uncle Sam Can't Count

Uncle Sam Can't Count

A History of Failed Government Investments, from Beaver Pelts to Green Energy

by Anita Folsom, Burton W. Folsom Jr. Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014

Drawing on examples from the nation's past and present—the fur trade to railroads, cars and chemicals, aviation to Solyndra—Uncle Sam Can't Count a sweeping work of conservative economic history that explains why the federal government cannot and should not pick winners and losers in the private...
Book cover of Death on Hold

Death on Hold

A Prisoner's Desperate Prayer and the Unlikely Family Who Became God's Answer

by Burton W. Folsom, Anita Folsom
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2015

In January 1983 Burt Folsom read a story in Time about Mitch Rutledge, a man on death row with an IQ of 84 who said he was sorry for what he did. "Forget him," the last line of the story read. But Burt wrote Mitch a letter and discovered a man more interesting and intelligent than the article revealed. Burt...
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