Forged Consensus : : Science, Technology, and Economic Policy in the United States, 1921-1953 / / David M. Hart.
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...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2021] ©1998 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Princeton Studies in American Politics: Historical, International, and Comparative Perspectives ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (272 p.) :; 1 line drawing |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- FORGED CONSENSUS
- Chapter 1. The Malleability of American Liberalism and the Making of Public Policy
- Chapter 2. The Republican Ascendancy and the Crash: Associative Undercurrents in a Conservative Era, 1921-1932
- Chapter 3. Trial and Error: Science, Technology, and Economic Policy in the First Roosevelt Administration, 1933-1936
- Chapter 4. Breaking Bottlenecks and Blockades: The Heyday of Reform Liberalism, 1937-1940, and Its Postwar Consequences
- Chapter 5. Old Fights, New Accommodations: Wartime Experiments and the Demise of Reform Liberalism, 1940-1945
- Chapter 6. Groping toward Management: Science, Technology, and Macroand Microeconomic Policy, 1945-1950
- Chapter 7. "The Crescendo of Hideous Invention": The National Security State Comes of Age, 1945-1953
- Chapter 8. The Past in the Present: The "Hybrid" in the Cold War and Beyond
- Bibliography
- Index