num_pages: 496
description: In this concluding volume of The Myth of the Machine, Mumford brings to a head his radical revisions of the stale popular conceptions of human and technological progress. Far from being an attack on science and technics, The Pentagon of Power seeks to establish a more organic social order based on technological resources. Index; photographs.
language: English
title: The Pentagon of Power
titlecomplete: The Pentagon of Power (The Myth of the Machine, Vol 2)
genres: History, Philosophy, Sociology, Technology, World History, Anthropology, Science, Nonfiction, Theory, Politics
ratings_count: 174
awards: awardedAt: 31564800000
name: National Book Award Finalist
category: Arts and Letters
publisher: Harcour, Brace Jovanovich