The Jasons: The Secret History of Science's Postwar Elite by Finkbeiner, Ann K.

The Jasons: The Secret History of Science's Postwar Elite (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780143038474)

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The Jasons: The Secret History of Science's Postwar Elite by Finkbeiner, Ann K.

The Jasons: The Secret History of Science's Postwar Elite

$15.00
The Jasons: The Secret History of Science's Postwar Elite by Finkbeiner, Ann K.

The Jasons: The Secret History of Science's Postwar Elite

$15.00
Format: Paperback
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The Jasons are a well-guarded group of world-class scientists, briefly outed in the Pentagon Papers during the Vietnam War, who have been meeting every summer since 1960 to tackle classified problems that the Defense Department cannot solve. Among many stunning innovations, they helped invent our electronic battlefield and Star Wars missile defense technology, and are now looking into ways to improve our intelligence gathering. Recounting the unknown story of these brilliant, stubbornly independent thinkers, Ann Finkbeiner takes advantage of her unprecedented access to this elite group to explore the uncertain bargains between science and politics. It is a story older than Faust and as timely as tomorrow's headlines.

Author: Ann Finkbeiner
ISBN-10: 0143038478
ISBN-13: 9780143038474
Publisher: Penguin Books
Language: English
Published: 04/01/2007
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 7.70h x 5.00w x 0.90d

Review Citation(s):
New York Times 05/13/2007 pg. 32
By Ann Finkbeiner
By Ann Finkbeiner
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Ann Finkbeiner is a freelance science writer who normally writes about cosmology and who runs the graduate program in science writing at Johns Hopkins University.

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