The National Parks Service\u2019s law enforcement agency confirmed it responded to an incident at Battery Yates on Thursday \u201cinvolving a male visitor who reportedly fell from the cliffside into the water.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThe individual was recovered and pronounced dead,\u201d said Scott Carr, parks service spokesperson, in an email. \u201cWe do not have any further information to share at this time.\u201d<\/p>\n
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The Golden Gate Bridge is seen from the Fort Baker Marina in the Golden Gate National Recreation Area in San Francisco. Doherty was found in the Battery Yates park portion of the recreation area.<\/p>\n
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Doherty was the author of several books, with Reason saying his most notable work was the 2007 study \u201cRadicals for Capitalism: A Freewheeling History of the Modern American Libertarian Movement.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cDoherty has rescued libertarianism from its own obscurity,\u201d the Wall Street Journal wrote of the work<\/a>, \u201celoquently capturing the appeal of the \u2018pure idea.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n Libertarianism\u2019s role in gun control and the courts was the subject of his works, and Doherty had no shortage of admirers.<\/p>\n Loren Dean, chair of the Libertarian Party of California, said it was Doherty\u2019s work at Reason that brought him into the liberty movement. <\/p>\n \u201cBrian Doherty was the best kind of libertarian: one who holds true to the principles of liberty as they are,\u201d Dean said in an email. \u201cHe was a tireless champion of both gun rights and police reform who wrote books on both [former U.S. Rep.] Ron Paul and Burning Man; his work did not sit on either the \u2018left\u2019 or \u2018right\u2019 side of the authoritarian box, but delightfully outside that tired frame, where libertarian principles truly sing.\u201d<\/p>\n Doherty began working at Reason in 1994, according to the publication\u2019s obituary<\/a>, left the company and returned in 2000 at the behest of Nick Gillespie, then editor in chief<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cWhat I liked most about Brian was his abiding interest in things happening on the margins of American culture, politics, and thought, and his deep appreciation for the prodigious bounty that markets deliver reliably and without moralizing,\u201d Gillespie wrote in his farewell to Doherty, who had many opinion pieces published in The Times.<\/p>\n Far from just heady subjects, Doherty covered \u201cboth libertarian and whimsical\u201d subcultures, according to the obituary, including New Hampshire\u2019s Free State Project and the Seasteaders<\/a>, a growing community of individuals dedicated to living on the seas.<\/p>\n