Mother’s Milk

A Gift of Freedom: How the John M. Olin Foundation Changed America, by John J. Miller (Encounter, 232 pp., $25.95)

THERE are two groups of people who should read NATIONAL REVIEW political reporter John J. Miller’s crisply written, authoritative history of the John M. Olin Foundation: conservatives wishing to reflect happily on some of the major intellectual accomplishments of the conservative movement over recent decades, and liberals desperately seeking to duplicate conservatives’success.