Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 672 p. Audience: General/trade. Hardcover

Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 672 p. Audience: General/trade. Hardcover with dust jacket-full black buckram over boards with copper lettering stamped on spine. Glossy illustrated DJ. Sewn binding. xxii + 644 pages, with illustrations, bibliographic end notes, index. With an Introduction by the author, and 6 Appendixes documenting personnel, projects, and funding. 1st Edition, 1st Printing. Written with the assistance of Richard G. Hewlett & Ruth R. Harris. Foreword by Alan Schriesheim. CONDITION: Book AS NEW, binding square and tight, pages bright and unmarked; unread; DJ AS NEW, not clipped, protected in a clear archival (Mylar) cover. CONTENT: Charts the history of a representative national laboratory, an institutional form of great importance and interest for late twentieth-century America, taking that history from World War II through the entire Col War period and into the present. >Guaranteed secure packaging, free tracking, and no-hassle return policy.