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Tables of Contents for Endless Frontier
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Prologue: "Call it a war"
1
10
Part One: The Education of an Engineer
11
78
1. "The sea was all around" (1890--1909)
11
12
2. "The man I wanted to be" (1909--18)
23
16
3. "Blow for blow" (1919--32)
39
22
4. "Versatile, not superficial" (1932--38)
61
28
Part Two: Preparing for War
89
58
5. "The minor miracles" (1939--40)
89
29
6. "Don't let the bastards get you down" (1940--41)
118
29
Part Three: Modern Arms and Free Men
147
132
7. "The man who may win or lose the war" (1942--43)
147
19
8. "A race between techniques" (1943--44)
166
23
9. "This uranium headache!" (1939--45)
189
29
10. "The endless frontier" (1944--45)
218
22
11. "After peace returns" (1945)
240
21
12. "As we may think" (1945)
261
18
Part Four: The New World
279
126
13. "A carry-over from the war" (1945--46)
279
31
14. "So doggone weary" (1946--48)
310
34
15. "The grim world" (1949--54)
344
35
16. "Crying in the wilderness" (1955--70)
379
26
Postscript: "Earlier than we think"
405
4
List of Abbreviations
409
2
Notes
411
74
Principal Sources
485
8
Acknowledgments
493
2
Index
495