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This book makes an original, theoretical argument about the creation of the National Science Foundation and addresses an important topic, one with current policy implications. --Alex Roland, Duke University

Daniel Kleinman provides a refreshingly original view of the creation of the National Science Foundation and the inner-workings of the state, industry, and scientific elites in the United States. . . . Kleinman provides a new argument concerning the debates surrounding the establishment of the NSF. . . . This book is relevant to the study of politics and the life sciences because in describing the establishment of the current U.S. system for funding much of the life sciences, it also shows why it is so difficult to change the present system of dispersed overlapping agencies. . . . I recommend using this book in any science policy courses requiring a history of NSF and federal science policy since the Second World War. <br>--Franz A. Foltz, Politics and the Life Sciences

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Daniel Lee Kleinman is Assistant Professor in the School of History, Technology, and Society at Georgia Institute of Technology.

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