Culture | Money and man at Stanford

A student journalist examines the culture at Stanford

The Stanford University campus in Palo Alto, California.
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THERE ARE good reasons to be sceptical of this book. The author, Theo Baker, is just 21 years old. His subject is his Stanford undergraduate years—a time that feels important while living through it, but is rarely of much interest to anyone else.

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