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By the end of his freshman year, after Baker's reporting revealed two decades of unreported research misconduct allegations, including in a study that claimed to have found the cause of degeneration in Alzheimer's patients, Stanford's president was forced to resign.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBoth coming-of-age story and clear-eyed exposé, Baker takes us inside this elite American world like no other, revealing the ambitious, amoral, and at-times laughably absurd truth behind the institution training kids to rule the world.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cobham Bookshop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56670651941250,"sku":"9780241733912","price":25.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0569\/4567\/2367\/files\/9780241733912.jpg?v=1779778814"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.cobhambooks.com\/collections\/business-finance.oembed?page=4","provider":"Cobham Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}