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The Competition of Ideas: How My Colleagues and I Built the Hoover Institution, by W. Glenn Campbell (Jameson, 409 pp., $35)
Since its founding by Herbert Hoover in 1919 as an archive of war- related materials, the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace has become one of academia's brightest spots. The list of scholars who have found shelter at Hoover-Friedrich von Hayek, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Milton Friedman, Robert Conquest, and Thomas Sowell, to name just a few-reads like the starting lineup of the 1927 New York Yankees. And the fact that this conservative all-star team has done its work on the campus of liberal Stanford University (of which the Hoover Institution is a part) makes its achievements all the ...
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