Science and the Navy: The History of the Office of Naval Research

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Addressing all those interested in the history of American science and concerned with its future, a leading scholar of public policy explains how and why the Office of Naval Research became the first federal agency to support a wide range of scientific work in universities. Harvey Sapolsky shows that the ONR functioned as a "surrogate national scie

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"This is an important story, well told and fully documented through extensive interviews and archival research... [This book] sharpen[s] our understanding of the origins and evolution of the fragile compact that has linked scientists to the state. In doing so, [it] makes an excellent contribution to our understanding of science policy in the United States."--Journal of Politics