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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

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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