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The Legacy of Len Bias

Jesse Walker | 6.19.2006 11:18 AM


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.

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