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When Life Gives You Lemonade…

Jesse Walker | 7.18.2003 2:25 AM


Chuck Murphy explains how a neighbor's grudge, some savvy marketing, and a gullible media combined to convince the world that Florida police had arrested a six-year-old girl for selling lemonade without a license.

Jesse Walker is books editor at Reason and the author of Rebels on the Air and The United States of Paranoia.