Responsibility in Government

by Herbert J. Spiro

192 pages, Paperback

First published November 1, 1969

Reviews

[Becky · Rating 5 out of 5]

I ended up really enjoying this book, but some of the chapters are really difficult to read. I'm not sure if my mental state was part of it (I started reading when Trump and Musk began firing all of us federal probationary employees) or if it's Spiro's style, but there were many moments of re-reading aloud to myself to fully get what I was reading. I also restarted it because I was getting a weird libertarian bent on first read, and that is definitely NOT what Spiro was trying to get across.

All in all, I really enjoyed this. The chapter on free will was surprising and very cool, and I basically underlined the entire final chapters on application and constitutionalism. I liked it, and I am already thinking of more Spiro.