Endless Frontier: Vannevar Bush, Engineer of the American Century

Prologue: "Call it a war" -- "The sea was all around" (1890-1909) -- "The man I wanted to be" (1909-18) -- "Blow for blow" (1919-32) -- "Versatile, not superficial" (1932-38) -- "The minor miracles" (1939-40) -- "Don't let the bastards get you down" (1940-41) -- "The man who may win or lose the war" (1942-43) -- "A race between techniques" (1943-44) -- "This uranium headache!" (1939-45) -- "The endless frontier" (1944-45) -- "After peace returns" (1945) -- "As we may think" (1945) -- "A carry-over from the war" (1945-46) -- "So doggone weary" (1946-48) -- "The grim world" (1949-54) -- "Crying in the wilderness" (1955-70) -- postscript: "Earlier than we think".;"A prodigiously researched biography of Vannevar Bush, one of America's most awe-inspiring polymaths and the secret force behind the biggest technological breakthroughs of the twentieth century. As the inventor and public entrepreneur who launched the Manhattan Project, helped to create the military-industrial complex, conceived a permanent system of government support for science and engineering, and anticipated both the personal computer and the Internet, Vannevar Bush is the twentieth century's Ben Franklin." -- From Amazon.com summary.