| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 105.2

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Book Review

Canada and the United States

David M. Hart. Forged Consensus: Science, Technology, and Economic Policy in the United States, 1921–1953. (Princeton Studies in American Politics: Historical, International, and Comparative Perspectives.) Princeton: Princeton University Press. 1998. Pp. xiv, 267. $39.95.

For nearly two generations, policy analysts in the United States have generally accepted the widely held creation myth that credits Vannevar Bush and his 1945 report to the president, Science—The Endless Frontier, with establishing the framework for America's postwar science and technology (S&T) policy. Political scientist David M. Hart challenges the conventional wisdom in this thought-provoking study. As its title suggests, Hart does not believe that modern S&T policy emerged full-blown from a single source or from a single moment in history, nor does he believe (as many observers have been wont to do) that S&T policy has been somehow insulated from the ideas, values, institutions, and interests that have combined to shape other federal policies. Conducting scientific research and development may have been one thing, but setting national policy for it was surely another. Hart's basic argument is that S&T policy has always been part and parcel of American politics and political development as a whole. . . .

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