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A Gift of Freedom: How the John M. Olin Foundation Changed America

A Gift of Freedom: How the John M. Olin Foundation Changed America

Miller, John J.

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ISBN10: 1641772964
ISBN13: 9781641772969
Publisher: Encounter Books
Published: Mar 22 2022
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.80
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
In the 1970s, John M. Olin, one of the country's leading industrialists, decided to devote his fortune to saving American free enterprise. Over the next three decades, the John M. Olin Foundation funded the conservative movement as it emerged from the intellectual ghetto and occupied the halls of power. The foundation spent hundreds of millions of dollars fostering what its longtime president William E. Simon called the counterintelligentsia to offset liberal dominance of university faculties and the mainstream media and to make conservatism a significant cultural force. Among the counterintellectuals the foundation identified and supported at key stages of their careers were Charles Murray during his early work on welfare reform, Allan Bloom as he wrote The Closing of the American Mind, and Francis Fukuyama as he was developing his End of History thesis.


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