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Bruce Jay Friedman reviews an exhaustively researched biography of the comedian Bob Hope. By Bruce Jay Friedman Richard Zoglin’s new biography, “Hope: Entertainer of the Century,” follows Bob Hope ...

For a half century, as U.S. troops were stationed in far-flung locations, facing the despair of war, America’s most famous comedian offered them hope. Cantigny, located in Wheaton, is the estate of ...