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A.M. Links: Bernie's Radical Past, Eagles' Glenn Frey Dead at 67, GOP Primary Heats Up

Damon Root | 1.19.2016 9:00 AM

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Damon Root is a senior editor at Reason and the author of A Glorious Liberty: Frederick Douglass and the Fight for an Antislavery Constitution (Potomac Books). His next book, Emancipation War: The Fall of Slavery and the Coming of the Thirteenth Amendment (Potomac Books), will be published in June 2026.

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