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A self-described “crazy-ass man who insisted on talking about liberty in America,” 74-year-old Walter E. Williams has established himself as one of the country’s leading libertarian voices, serving as the chairman of George Mason University’s economics department from 1995-2001, writing a nationally syndicated column that now appears in over 140 newspapers, and filling in as a regular guest host for talk radio giant Rush Limbaugh. And as Associate Editor Damon Root notes in his review of Williams’ new autobiography Up from the Projects, Professor Williams made his name in large part due to a rigorous, fact-based account of why the free market is a force for racial equality.

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