IP: Vannevar Bush

[Dave Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>]

From: observer () westnet com


I just finished "Endless Frontier", the biography of Vannevar Bush, 
by G. Pascal Zachary and found it the most enjoyable biography that I 
have ever read. I have always been very interested in Bush, because 
of the "As We May Think" article and his involvement with both early 
computers and the Manhattan Project but I approached the book with 
some trepedation as I have never had a very high opinion of Zachary's 
reporting (I covered the EFF kickoff at the National Press Club and 
Zachary's Wall Street Journal article, entiled "Kapor launches Hacker 
Defense Fund" bore little resemblance to what actually went on at the 
announcement). 


The book was excellent, well-documented and very well researched. It 
is also extremely well-written. I leaned much about Bush that I 
didn't know including his role in introducing radar as a submarine 
detector in World War II and the fact that he was a founder of 
Raytheon. While I expected to learn a lot about Bush, the book far 
exceeded my expectations in all aspects.


In short, I can't say enough good things about the book and highly 
recommend it.














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