Full name: The Pentagon's Brain: An Uncensored History of DARPA, America's Top-Secret Military Research Agency

Author: Annie Jacobsen Year: 2015 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: History, Non Fiction, Science, Politics, War/Military Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780316371766 9780316371667 0316371769 0316371661

The definitive history of DARPA, the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency, from the author of the New York Times bestseller Area 51 No one has ever written the history of the Defense Department's most secret, most powerful, and most controversial military science R&D agency. In the first-ever history about the organization, New York Times bestselling author Annie Jacobsen draws on inside sources, exclusive interviews, private documents, and declassified memos to paint a picture of DARPA, or "the Pentagon's brain," from its Cold War inception in 1958 to the present. This is the book on DARPA--a compelling narrative about this clandestine intersection of science and the American military and the often frightening results. Similar books: Command and Control by Eric Schlosser Operation Paperclip by Annie Jacobsen Wired for War by P. W. Singer How We Got to Now by Steven Johnson Connections by James Burke Edison's Eve by Gaby Wood Imperial Grunts by Robert D. Kaplan The Dead Hand by David E. Hoffman And the Band Played On by Randy Shilts The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes The World Without Us by Alan Weisman Generation Kill by Evan Wright Bomb by Steve Sheinkin The Great War for Civilisation by Robert Fisk Drift by Rachel Maddow Ghost Wars by Steve Coll Fiasco by Thomas E. Ricks Imperial Life in the Emerald City by Rajiv Chandrasekaran Dopesick by Beth Macy