Forged Consensus: Science, Technology, and Economic Policy in the United States, 1921-1953

In this thought-provoking book, David Hart challenges the creation myth of post—World War II federal science and technology policy. According to this myth, the postwar policy sprang full-blown from the mind of Vannevar Bush in the form of Science, the Endless Frontier (1945). Hart puts Bush's efforts in a larger historical and political context, demonstrating in the process that Bush was but one of many contributors to this complex policy and not necessarily the most successful one. Herbert...