Shaky foundations the politics-patronage-social science nexus in Cold War America /
Mark Solovey.
- New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, (c)2013.
- 1 online resource.
Includes bibliographies and index.
Introduction: social scientists and their patrons in a remarkable era -- Social science on the endless (and end-less?) frontier: the postwar NSF debate -- Defense and offense in the military science establishment: towards a technology of human behavior -- Vision, analysis, or subversion? -- The rocky story of the behavioral sciences at the Ford Foundation -- Cultivating hard-core social research at the NSF: protective coloration and official Negroes.
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Social sciences--Research--History--United States--20th century. Endowment of research--Political aspects--History--United States--20th century. Cold War--Social aspects. World politics--1945-1989.