Clifford d conner biography of barack

Clifford D. Conner, The Tragedy of American Science: From Truman to Trump, Haymarket Books, 2020, 300 pages

Reviewed by Hamid R. Ekbia

Volume 23, Number 3, Bio-Politics

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American science has aspired, for a long time, to present itself as exceptional.

In 1966, the historian Hunter Dupre invited his colleagues to celebrate, in his view, this long-neglected exceptionalism.

Clifford d conner biography of barack obama

More than half-a-century on, Clifford Conner takes on and upends Dupre’s grand thesis. With this mournful but marvelous survey, Conner challenges dominant narratives on the status, objectivity, and integrity of American science, revealing the role played by money, military, and politics in producing its apparent superiority in the aftermath of World War II.

A historian of science himself, Conner is fully cognizant of the accomplishments of American science and technology.

In an earlier book, A People’s History of Science: Min