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Laissez Faire Books<\/a><\/strong> designated Attention Deficit Democracy<\/em> as the winner of the March 2006 Lysander Spooner Award for Advancing the Literature of Liberty.<\/font><\/p>\n

I greatly appreciate the award and all the fine work that LFB has done to advance liberty for so many years.\u00a0Laissez Faire has consistently had the finest\u00a0collection\u00a0of books on liberty, year after year. \u00a0Kathleen Hiserodt and her team are doing a great job!<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Laissez Faire Books designated Attention Deficit Democracy as the winner of the March 2006 Lysander Spooner Award for Advancing the Literature of Liberty. I greatly appreciate the award and all the fine work that LFB has done to advance liberty for so many years.\u00a0Laissez Faire has consistently had the finest\u00a0collection\u00a0of books on liberty, year after […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[22,659],"class_list":["post-79","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-attention-deficit-democracy"],"yoast_head":"\nThanks to Laissez Faire Books! - James Bovard<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2006\/03\/14\/thanks-to-laissez-faire-books\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Thanks to Laissez Faire Books! - James Bovard\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Laissez Faire Books designated Attention Deficit Democracy as the winner of the March 2006 Lysander Spooner Award for Advancing the Literature of Liberty. 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