The Hoover Digest offers informative and compelling writing on politics, economics, history and culture. (Amazon.com)

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)

On the cover: Former president Herbert Hoover proclaimed it “the greatest bridge yet constructed in the world.” Workers broke ground for the San Francisco– Oakland Bay Bridge seventy-five years ago, on July 9, 1933. It opened to road and rail traffic in November 1936. Hoover and California Governor C. C. Young led the commission that proposed the epic span, and Hoover was present at both the groundbreaking and the unveiling. The cover image is from a fiftieth-anniversary poster by San Francisco artist John Mattos.

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