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The Legacy of Len Bias

Jesse Walker | 6.19.2006 11:18 AM

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Twenty years after the death of Len Bias, Radley Balko declares that "Perhaps no single event is more responsible for [this] pit of Drug War insanity." He backs that up with an illuminating excerpt from Dan Baum's book Smoke and Mirrors.

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

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