Book review of "Wisdom's Workshop: The Rise of the Modern University"

Abstract

[...]the American colonial colleges all had close ties to their colonial governments and they essentially constituted a "public-private coalition" (p. 125). [...]a new structural network contributed much to the boom years of American higher education, the eras of World War II, and the Cold War. [...]we had the National Defense Research Committee and the Office of Strategic Research and Development (OSRD). [...]a new generation of social thinkers arose to challenge this orthodoxy and prepare the way for progressivism in the next century. [...]the American Economic Association, with its founding in 1885, represents not only a new academic structure but an ideological shift.