Reviews of The Death of Common Sense
“Excellent.”
—Washington Post
“What Mr. Howard is trying to do with this thoughtful little book is drive us all sane.”
—New York Times
“Mr. Howard’s argument is fresh, reflecting an impressive combination of wisdom, wry humor, and quiet passion….When we think about ‘reinventing government,’ it’s a good place to start.”
—New York Times Book Review
“The delights of this policy prose poem lie in its perfect details, its civilized tone, its sure sense of where the ill-made legal shoe pinches.”
—Wall Street Journal
“Challenges fundamental and usually unexplored assumptions and points out that the Enlightenment’s promise of wisdom through reason is far from being achieved.”
—Los Angeles Times
Endorsements of The Death of Common Sense
“A brilliant diagnosis…forceful, trenchant, and eloquent.”
—Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
“One of the most important, thought-provoking books I’ve read in years, and it will grip you from the first page. Every doctor and teacher frustrated by paperwork, every judge frustrated by mandatory sentencing guidelines, every banker and businessman tied in regulatory knots, every manager terrified to fire someone for doing a poor job – every taxpayer – will find The Death of Common Sense a blood-boiler. What makes it important, though, is not its (amazing) anecdotes, but that it so elegantly synthesizes them…and points to solutions.”
—Andrew Tobias
