| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 89.4

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Book Review

Scientists, Business, and the State, 1890-1960. By Patrick J. McGrath. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002. xii, 248 pp. $39.95, ISBN 0-8078-2655-3.)

In 1968, Adm. Hyman G. Rickover stunned members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee when he charged that 'the military-scientific complex . . . is the really dangerous one,' not Dwight D. Eisenhower's military-industrial complex. Patrick J. McGrath's provocative study of the evolving world views and political roles of scientists over the first six decades of the twentieth century shows how scientists achieved such dubious prominence and at what cost to their progressive social vision. . . .

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