Via Randy Barnett we learn that Lott's Bias Against Guns has been nominated for a Spooner award for the best book on liberty published in 2003. On the voting page they state:
only one vote per email address will be accepted
I predict that Lott's book will get a Lott of votes.
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Via David Bernstein I learn that the finalists for the Lysander Spooner award are:
James Bovard, Terrorism and Tyranny;John Lott, Bias Against Guns;Charles Murray, Human Accomplishment; and[his] own, You Can't Say That!
My congratulations to all the finalists. To get into the…
[Note: This is a copy of a document found at this link on John Lott's website on May 13, 2003. I have added critical commentry, written in italics like this. Tim Lambert ]
With some recent attacks on me in a variety of places from the Washington Post to the Chicago Tribune to numerous other…
I've discovered another one of John Lott's attempts to rewrite history. Read on.
Lott has written a response to Kevin Drum's summary of Lott's model changing antics. Here's Drum:
1. Lott and two coauthors produced a statistical model ("Model 1") that showed significant crime decreases when…
compiled by Otis Dudley Duncan and Tim Lambert revised 23 Oct 2005 by Tim Lambert
Note: With the exception of academic publications, some tapes and some found by LexisNexis search, these were found on the Internet. The web is, of course, not perfectly reliable, and items appearing there…
Any mention who did the nominating?
Given that the Spooner awards seem to be sponsored by Laissez-Faire Books, a libertarian bookseller, I'd say that some group of libertarians made up the list. I was surprised, in fact, to see one or two good books on the list among all the polemics; I voted for George Crile's "Charlie Wilson's War."