• A Gift of Freedom: How the John M. Olin Foundation Changed America Джон Дж. Миллер
    ISBN: 978-1594031175
    Год издания: 2005
    Издательство: Encounter Books
    Язык: Английский

    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…

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