Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
Focusing on MIT and Stanford, Leslie offers a critical look at American science in the making. He reveals a regrettable series of misplaced priorities and missed opportunities that have characterized the recent history of science and technology in this country.
Synopsis
In 'the Cold War and American Science: ' The Military-Industrial Academic Complex at MIT and Stanford, Stuart Leslie shows how the post -World War II alliance of the U.S. military, high technology corporations, and academia redefined and degraded both American science and the American university.