Endless Frontier: Vannevar Bush, Engineer of the American Century [Free Press trade paperback edition] 9781501196454, 9781501196461, 1501196456

Prologue: "Call it a war" -- "The sea was all around" (1890-1909) -- "The man I wanted to be&qu

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Endless Frontier: Vannevar Bush, Engineer of the American Century [Free Press trade paperback edition]
 9781501196454, 9781501196461, 1501196456

Table of contents :
Prologue: "Call it a war" --
"The sea was all around" (1890-1909) --
"The man I wanted to be" (1909-18) --
"Blow for blow" (1919-32) --
"Versatile, not superficial" (1932-38) --
"The minor miracles" (1939-40) --
"Don't let the bastards get you down" (1940-41) --
"The man who may win or lose the war" (1942-43) --
"A race between techniques" (1943-44) --
"This uranium headache!" (1939-45) --
"The endless frontier" (1944-45) --
"After peace returns" (1945) --
"As we may think" (1945) --
"A carry-over from the war" (1945-46) --
"So doggone weary" (1946-48) --
"The grim world" (1949-54) --
"Crying in the wilderness" (1955-70) --
postscript: "Earlier than we think".

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