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(More customer reviews)A classic story in time for the classic holiday. We often think of the Manhattan Project as heralding the age of American scientific supremacy, but Prince demonstrates how that was much more the piece de resistance for our scientific enterprise than it was the opening trumpet. In an age of polemicized and politicized science, a study of how science became foundational in our society is not only enthralling, but vital. This book contributes to that project; how something we might call the scientific spirit--not unlike, or indeed any different from, the creative spirit--drove, not only discoveries, but the evolving American discourse, is a task uniquely suited for the journalistic enterprise. In that charge, Prince excels. An academic survey of the development of the scientific modernity this is not, but that's no weakness; it instead limns the zeitgeist, and the impact (to excuse the pun) one man's calling had on a society still wresting itself from the ancien. Glenn Beck, eat your heart out.
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