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In examining the controversies over Cold War social science, Rohde reveals the persistent militarization of American political and intellectual life, a phenomenon that continues to raise grave questions about the relationship between expert knowledge and American democracy.
Joy Rohde is Assistant Professor of History at Trinity University.
"This accomplished and important book shows how the social sciences became enmeshed in a militarized system which has persisted, even grown, in recent years even as it moved off campus, making it less visible and therefore less controversial. Joy Rohde offers especially striking and disturbing material on the blowback of social science collaboration with the armed forces, as individuals and institutions moved beyond addressing threats abroad into assessing domestic disorder and attempting to control it."—Michael Sherry, Richard W. Leopold Professor of History, Northwestern University, author of In the Shadow of War: The United States since the 1930s
"Armed with Expertise is a very fine book about Cold War social science, the relationship of academic institutions to the national security state, and the emphatic militarization of knowledge production during the past half century. Joy Rohde persuasively demonstrates that efforts to safeguard academic freedom by exiling military research from university campuses during and after the Vietnam War had unintended and deeply paradoxical consequences that are still with us. The military's hold on social research was strengthened, its production was privatized, and it was insulated from the public debate on which democracy depends. Rohde's narrative is sobering and consequential for anyone who cares about the relationship between knowledge and politics in the United States and the world."—Ellen Herman, University of Oregon, author of The Romance of American Psychology: Political Culture in the Age of Experts
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