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Civil Liberties

Books Really Are For Burning

Nick Gillespie | 9.6.2007 9:48 AM

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Reader John Struan sends along this mind-boggling story, slugged Kansas City, Mo.:

Store Owners Burn Books In Protest: Book Store Owners Protest 'Decline In Reading'

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Nick Gillespie is an editor at large at Reason and host of The Reason Interview With Nick Gillespie.

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