SCIENCE AND GOVERNMENT
by Snow C. P
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Newburyport, Massachusetts, United States
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About This Item
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1961. First Edition. 8vo, publisher's original gray cloth in the pictorially decorated dustjacket. vi, [2], 88 pp. A fine copy in a very nice dustjacket with extremely mild edgewear, a separation between signatures due to binding defect, still a handsome and well preserved copy.. FIRST EDITION. AN IMPORTANT BOOK ABOUT THE PROBLEMS CREATED OVER DISAGREEMENTS BETWEEN SCIENCE AND GOVERNMENT. Sir Charles tells the story, hitherto unpublished, of the bitter and damaging wartime enmity between two eminent British scientists both powerful in government. These men were Sir Henry Tizard, who saw to it that England led the world in the development of radar, and his unrelenting opponent F. A Lindemann (Lord Cherwell), Winston Churchill's scientific adviser.
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- Bookseller
- Buddenbrooks, Inc.
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 32681
- Title
- SCIENCE AND GOVERNMENT
- Author
- Snow C. P
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Place of Publication
- Cambridge
- Date Published
- 1961
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Buddenbrooks, Inc.
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