Twelve Classic Short Stories from The Golden Age of Science Fiction by Randall Garrett, Volume 2. Featured here: "The Destroyers", "By Proxy", "Hail to the Chief", "Dead Giveaway", "Cum Grano Salis", "The Measure of a Man", "The Assess of Baalaam", "With No Strings Attached", "No Iron Bars a Cage...", "Damned If You Don't", "That Sweet Little Old Lady", and "Instant Decision"..
Randall Garrett (December 16, 1927 – December 31, 1987) was an American science fiction and fantasy author. He was a contributor to Astounding and other science fiction magazines of the 1950s and 1960s. He instructed Robert Silverberg in the techniques of selling large quantities of action-adventure science fiction, and collaborated with him on two novels about men from Earth disrupting a peaceful agrarian civilization on an alien planet.