College for the Home-Schooled Is Shaping Leaders for the Right

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ABSTRACT – Patrick Henry College, first college primarily for evangelical Christian home-schoolers, serves as pipeline for students into conservative politics; 4-year-old Purcellville, Va, school with some 240 students supplies interns for Bush administration and many conservative members of Congress; college’s knack for political job placement testifies to increasing influence that relatively small number of Christian home-schooling families are building within conservative movement through their passionate political views, close-knit grass-roots network and financial support from few wealthy patrons; photos (M)