Pascal blaise

1997 · 61256bd — New York: The Free Press 1997. First Edition. Octavo white & gray boards hardcover 518 pp. Former-owner inscription; otherwise Fine in a Fine though price-clipped dust jacket. From dust jacket: America is home to many scientific and technological visionaries more in each passing century. In the 20th -- the American -- Century no visionary stands taller than Vannevar Bush. As the inventor and public entrepreneur who launched the Manhattan Project helped to create the military-industrial complex conceived of a permanent system of government support for science and engineering and anticipated the personal computer and the Internet Bush is our century’s reincarnation of Ben Franklin. His story is a grand tour of the digital leviathan we know as modern American life. In this engaging prodigiously researched and probing look at one of America’s most awe-inspiring polymaths Wall Street Journal senior writer G. Pascal Zachary brings to life an American original -- a man of his time and ours. The Free Press, (1997). First Edition. hardcover books