Aaron Swartz Biographer Justin Peters: “Aaron Died for Nothing.” | Inverse

"Figures like Aaron Swartz — whose 2013 suicide after a lengthy indictment for computer fraud had a butterfly effect on the world — are difficult to talk about without casting martyrs, heroes, or otherwise larger-than-life figures. But in his new book The Idealist: Aaron Swartz and the Rise of Free Culture on the Internet, journalist Justin Peters manages to strip away the politics and sketch the late Reddit co-founder as a mere human ..."