Soldiers of Reason
Subtitle: The RAND Corporation and the Rise of the American Empire
Publisher: Harcourt; Harcourt, Inc.
Published: May 12, 2008
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 400
ISBN-13: 9780151010813
Copyright date: 2008
Subjects: History Of Specific Companies; Military-Political Relationships; Political Science; Technology & Industrial Arts; Politics/International Relations; Government - National; Military Science; United States - 20th Century; Political Science / Government / National; Government & Business
First sentence: I first became aware of RAND's existence in the cauldron of one of the most controversial conflicts in modern American history, the Vietnam War.
Table of contents: title: Foreword
pagenum: 1; title: PART 1; label: 1
title: A Great Beginning
pagenum: 9; label: 2
title: The Human Factor
pagenum: 24; label: 3
title: The Wages of Sin
pagenum: 40; title: PART 2; label: 4
title: A Talk Before Dinner
pagenum: 67; label: 5
title: The Secret Keepers
pagenum: 72; label: 6
title: The Jester of Death
pagenum: 95; label: 7
title: In RAND's Orbit
pagenum: 105; title: PART 3; label: 8
title: A Delicate Dance
pagenum: 127; label: 9
title: Whiz Kids Rule
pagenum: 132; label: 10
title: The Art of Science
pagenum: 143; label: 11
title: A Final Solution to the Soviet Problem
pagenum: 158; label: 12
title: An Irresistible Force
pagenum: 168; title: PART 4; label: 13
title: A night in the Ranch Kien
pagenum: 191; label: 14
title: The Price of Success
pagenum: 195; label: 15
title: Stealing Away
pagenum: 213; label: 16
title: Plus Ça Change
pagenum: 217; label: 17
title: Team B Strikes
pagenum: 230; title: PART 5; label: 18
title: Witnessing End Times
pagenum: 249; label: 19
title: The Terror Network
pagenum: 262; label: 20
title: Yoda and the Knights of the Counterforce
pagenum: 275; label: 21
title: Back to Iraq
pagenum: 287; title: PART 6; label: 22
title: Death of a Strategist
pagenum: 299; label: 23
title: Whither RAND?
pagenum: 304; title: Acknowledgments
pagenum: 313; title: Endnotes
pagenum: 315; title: Bibliography
pagenum: 345; title: Index
pagenum: 363