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This Pulitzer Prize finalist provides 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.

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  • Title The Pentagon's Brain: An Uncensored History of Darpa, America's Top-Secret Military Research Agency
  • Author Annie Jacobsen
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Pages 576
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Little, Brown Paperbacks, NYC
  • Publication date 2016-06-07
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
  • ISBN 9780316371667 / 0316371661
  • Weight 1.2 lbs (0.54 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.2 x 5.4 x 1.5 in (20.83 x 13.72 x 3.81 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 21st Century
    • Chronological Period: 1950-1999
  • Category History - Military / War
  • Library of Congress subjects United States, United States - Military policy
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2015941909
  • Dewey Decimal Code 355.070

About the author

Annie Jacobsen is the author of the New York Times bestsellers Area 51 and Operation Paperclip and the Pulitzer Prize finalist The Pentagon's Brain. She was a contributing editor at the Los Angeles Times Magazine. A graduate of Princeton University, she lives in Los Angeles with her husband and two sons.
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