Carroll Pursell tells the story of the evolution of American technology since World War II. His fascinating and surprising history links pop culture icons with landmarks in technological innovation and shows how postwar politics left their ...

It is this combination of technological creativity and human passion which Carroll Pursell pursues in White Heat.

In many ways, he concludes, today's military-industrial complex is the legacy of the intense cooperation betweenscience and technology during World War II. Pursell shows how both the idea of progress and the mechanical means to harness the ...