TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hart,David M.
TI  - Forged Consensus: Science, Technology, and Economic Policy in the United States, 1921-1953 
T2  - Princeton Studies in American Politics: Historical, International, and Comparative Perspectives
SN  - 9781400832422
U1  - 338.9730609041 
PY  - 2021///]
CY  - Princeton, NJ : 
PB  - Princeton University Press, 
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Advanced Technology Program (ATP)
KW  - Arnold, Thurman
KW  - Atomic Energy Act (AEA)
KW  - Bausch and Lomb Company
KW  - Boeing Corporation
KW  - Byrnes, James
KW  - Colm, Gerhard
KW  - Cummings, Homer
KW  - DuPont Corporation
KW  - Employment Act (1946)
KW  - Finletter Commission
KW  - Forrestal, James
KW  - Frankfurter, Felix
KW  - General Motors
KW  - Guggenheim Foundation
KW  - Hollings, Ernest
KW  - Huntington, Samuel
KW  - Johnson, Louis
KW  - Keynesianism
KW  - Knudsen, William
KW  - Korean War
KW  - Levitt and Sons
KW  - Lustron Corporation
KW  - Marshall Plan
KW  - Mellon Institute
KW  - National Housing Agency (NHA)
KW  - Nelson, Richard
KW  - Nourse, Edwin
KW  - Pearl Harbor
KW  - Pullman Company
KW  - aircraft carriers
KW  - aircraft industry
KW  - aluminum industry
KW  - bombers, strategic
KW  - building trade unions
KW  - cartels
KW  - chemical industry
KW  - computers
KW  - corporate research laboratories
KW  - declassification
KW  - electric lamps
KW  - electric utility industry
KW  - industrial policy, 1980s
KW  - investment
KW  - labor relations
KW  - lumber industry
KW  - oil shock
KW  - proximity fuze
KW  - public housing
KW  - radio industry
KW  - research moratorium
KW  - rocketry
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface --; Abbreviations --; FORGED CONSENSUS --; Chapter 1. The Malleability of American Liberalism and the Making of Public Policy --; Chapter 2. The Republican Ascendancy and the Crash: Associative Undercurrents in a Conservative Era, 1921-1932 --; Chapter 3. Trial and Error: Science, Technology, and Economic Policy in the First Roosevelt Administration, 1933-1936 --; Chapter 4. Breaking Bottlenecks and Blockades: The Heyday of Reform Liberalism, 1937-1940, and Its Postwar Consequences --; Chapter 5. Old Fights, New Accommodations: Wartime Experiments and the Demise of Reform Liberalism, 1940-1945 --; Chapter 6. Groping toward Management: Science, Technology, and Macroand Microeconomic Policy, 1945-1950 --; Chapter 7. "The Crescendo of Hideous Invention": The National Security State Comes of Age, 1945-1953 --; Chapter 8. The Past in the Present: The "Hybrid" in the Cold War and Beyond --; Bibliography --; Index; restricted access
N2  - In this thought-provoking book, David Hart challenges the creation myth of post--World War II federal science and technology policy. According to this myth, the postwar policy sprang full-blown from the mind of Vannevar Bush in the form of Science, the Endless Frontier (1945). Hart puts Bush's efforts in a larger historical and political context, demonstrating in the process that Bush was but one of many contributors to this complex policy and not necessarily the most successful one. Herbert Hoover, Karl Compton, Thurman Arnold, Henry Wallace, Robert Taft, and Curtis LeMay--along with more familiar figures like Bush--are among those whose endeavors he traces.Hart places these policy entrepreneurs in the broad scheme of American political development, connecting each one's vision of the state in this apparently esoteric policy area to the central issues, events, and figures of mid-century America and to key theoretical debates. Hart's work reveals the wide range of ideas, often in conflict with one another, that underlay what later observers interpreted as a "postwar consensus." In Hart's view, these visions--and the interests and institutions that shape their translation into public policy--form the enduring basis of American politics in this important area. Policymakers today are still grappling with the legacies of the forged consensus
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