Endless Frontier: Vannevar Bush, Engineer of the American Century
 1997 Free Press book jacket | |
| Author | G. Pascal Zachary |
|---|---|
| Subject | Vannevar Bush; History of technology, art, science, and militaries |
| Genre | Biography |
| Set in | the United States and Washington D.C. |
| Published | 1997, 1999 |
| Publisher | Free Press, MIT Press |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Print, Ebook |
| Pages | 518 |
| ISBN | 9780684828213 |
| OCLC | 36521020 |
| Website | Official website |
Endless Frontier: Vannevar Bush, Engineer of the American Century is a 1997 non-fiction book written by G. Pascal Zachary, published by The Free Press. It is a biography of Vannevar Bush[1][2][3][4]
Zachary described how the internet was preceded by the memex and rapid selector, things created by Bush.[5]
Book organization
The narrative of this biography is divided into four parts:[6]
- Part 1. The education of an engineer
- Part 2. Preparing for war
- Part 3. Modern arms and free men
- Part 4. The new world
Reception
Thomas P. Hughes of the University of Pennsylvania wrote in The New York Times that the book "captured the spirit of Bush and his times" and that author was "Deeply informed and insightful".[7] Zachary believed that Bush's views of giving supremacy to intellectuals and universities would not be tolerated by federal politicians in the 1990s and that, in Hughes's words, the author was "Zachary is impatient with Bush for resisting people whom he considered government interventionists".[7]
Kirkus Reviews stated that the "biography demonstrates" how Bush is "a complex, deeply controversial, and profoundly influential figure."[5]
References
- ^ Dennis, Michael A. (1999). "Reviewed work: Endless Frontier: Vannevar Bush, Engineer of the American Century, G. Pascal Zachary". The Business History Review. 73 (1): 136–137. doi:10.2307/3116112. JSTOR 3116112.
- ^ Wang, Zuoyue (1999). "Reviewed work: Endless Frontier: Vannevar Bush, Engineer of the American Century, G. Pascal Zachary". Isis. 90 (2): 386–387. doi:10.1086/384381. JSTOR 237108.
- ^ Aspray, William (1998). "An Architect of Science". Science. 279 (5350): 500–501. Bibcode:1998Sci...279..500A. doi:10.1126/science.279.5350.500. JSTOR 2894026.
- ^ Fehr, Kregg M. (April 2000). "Review: Endless Frontier..." Journal of the Association for History and Computing. 3 (1). University of Michigan Library. Retrieved July 4, 2025.
- ^ a b ""ENDLESS FRONTIER: Vannevar Bush, Engineer of the American Century"". Kirkus Reviews. 1997-08-15. Retrieved 2020-04-09.
- ^ Worldcat
- ^ a b Hughes, Thomas P. (1997-10-26). "Scientocracy". The New York Times. Retrieved 2020-04-09.