Want to learn more about the secretive military agency that, according to author Annie Jacobsen, serves as "The Pentagon's Brain"? Hear her speak on her new DARPA history at a free and open to the public book event in Cambridge on September 23, 2015 at 7pm.
From Harvard Book Store:
Harvard Book Store welcomes ANNIE JACOBSEN, author of Area 51 and Operation Paperclip, for a discussion of her latest book, The Pentagon's Brain: An Uncensored History of DARPA, America's Top-Secret Military Research Agency.
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.
"Filled with the intrigue and high stakes of a spy novel, Jacobsen's history of DARPA is as much a fascinating testament to human ingenuity as it is a paean to endless industrial warfare and the bureaucracy of the military-industrial complex."—Kirkus Reviews
"A fascinating and unsettling portrait of the secretive U.S. government agency….Jacobsen walks a fine line in telling the story of the agency and its innovations without coming across as a cheerleader or a critic, or letting the narrative devolve into a salacious tell-all. Jacobsen's ability to objectively tell the story of DARPA, not to mention its murky past, is truly remarkable, making for a terrifically well-crafted treatise on the agency most Americans know next to nothing about." —Publishers Weekly
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