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Article: Mother's Milk.(A Gift of Freedom: How the John M. Olin Foundation Changed America)(Book Review)
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- National Review
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- December 31, 2005
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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.
No conservative foundation in America received a greater return on its investment in the right ideas, and in the right men and women capable of advancing them, than ...