This Pulitzer Prize finalist provides the definitive history of DARPA, the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency, from the author of theNew York TimesbestsellerArea 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 Timesbestselling 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 DARPAa compelling narrative about this clandestine intersection of science and the American military and the often frightening results.
Annie Jacobsenis the author of theNew York TimesbestsellersArea 51andOperation Paperclipand the Pulitzer Prize finalistThe Pentagon's Brain. She was a contributing editor at theLos Angeles Times Magazine. A graduate of Princeton University, she lives in Los Angeles with her husband and two sons.
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