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Book SynopsisAccording to the creation myth of post-World War II federal science and technology policy, the postwar policy sprang full-blown from the mind of Vannevar Bush in the form of Science, the Endless Frontier (1945). Challenging this myth, this title puts Bush's efforts in a larger historical and political context.
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Table of ContentsPrefaceAbbreviationsCh. 1The Malleability of American Liberalism and the Making of Public Policy3Ch. 2The Republican Ascendancy and the Crash: Associative Undercurrents in a Conservative Era, 1921-193230Ch. 3Trial and Error: Science, Technology, and Economic Policy in the First Roosevelt Administration, 1933-193662Ch. 4Breaking Bottlenecks and Blockades: The Heyday of Reform Liberalism, 1937-1940, and Its Postwar Consequences83Ch. 5Old Fights, New Accommodations: Wartime Experiments and the Demise of Reform Liberalism, 1940-1945117Ch. 6Groping toward Management: Science, Technology, and Macro-and Microeconomic Policy, 1945-1950145Ch. 7"The Crescendo of Hideous Invention": The National Security State Comes of Age, 1945-1953175Ch. 8The Past in the Present: The "Hybrid" in the Cold War and Beyond206Bibliography235Index259
