Anyone outraged by the Supreme Court's Kelo decision would do well to read Timothy Sandefur's timely and compelling description of property rights in America today.  The book is divided into four main parts:

1. a historical and philosophical argument for why property rights are important ("A child who has his toy stolen by a bully understands the moral significance of property."),

2. an originalist overview of property rights in the U.S. Constitution,

3. a harrowing chapter describing the state of property rights today (including the human interest story behind Kelo), and

4. a quick discussion of how Sandefur thinks we can remedy our sorry state of affairs.

Missourians, as members of a state with some of the most egregious eminent domain abuses in the United States, will particularly appreciate Sandefur's engaging defense of property rights and his call to restore the Founders' original understanding of property rights.