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The Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace is a public policy think tank and library founded by President Herbert Hoover at Stanford University, his alma mater. The Institution was founded in 1919 and over time has amassed a huge archive of documentation related to President Hoover, World War I, and World War II, specifically focusing on the perceived root causes of these wars.

The Hoover Institution mission statement expresses the basic tenets it stands for: representative government, private enterprise, peace, personal freedom, and the safeguards of the American system.

The Hoover Institution is influential in the American conservative and libertarian movements, and the Institution has long been a place of scholarship for high profile conservatives with government experience. A number of fellows have connections to or positions in the Bush administration, and other Republican administrations. On September 8, 2007 the Hoover Institution announced that former secretary of defense Donald Rumsfeld had accepted an invitation to join the institution as a one-year visiting fellow.

A non-political figure who played a key role in the Bush Administration's Iraq policy, Retired Army Gen. John P. Abizaid, former commander of the U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM), recently joined the Hoover Institution (as the first Annenberg Distinguished Visiting Fellow). Other fellows of the Institution include such high profile conservatives as Condoleezza Rice, George Shultz, Newt Gingrich, Thomas Sowell, Dinesh D'Souza, Shelby Steele, Edwin Meese and Pete Wilson. Since 2001, Hoover has published Policy Review. (wikipedia.org)

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A poster in the Hoover Archives offers a spring view of the New York World’s Fair of 1939-40, one of the twentieth century’s most memorable gatherings. The fair beckoned visitors with technological marvels, exotic amusements, and extravagant architecture like the Perisphere dome and the Trylon obelisk, shown here. Another gift from the fair: the bells of the Belgian Pavilion, which found a new home in the Hoover Tower after the fair closed.

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FEATURED ARTICLES

Not Appeasement
As the world sees it, America tends to dash off to war without moral authority. How we could change that view. By Shelby Steele.

Defusing the Bomb Culture

The growing effort to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons. By George P. Shultz, William J. Perry, Henry A. Kissinger, and Sam Nunn.

How Not to Fix the Economy
Bailouts, protectionism, higher tax rates, new spending—these are supposed to help? By Michael J. Boskin.

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