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THE PENTAGON'S BRAIN

Annie Jacobsen

An Uncensored History of DARPA, America's Top-Secret Military Research Agency

The definitive history of DARPA, the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency, from the author of the New York Times bestseller Area 51.

No one has ever written the history of the Defense Department's most secret, most powerful, and most controversial military science R&D agency. In the first-ever history about the organization, New York Times bestselling author Annie Jacobsen draws on inside sources, exclusive interviews, private documents, and declassified memos to paint a picture of DARPA, or "the Pentagon's brain," from its Cold War inception in 1958 to the present.

This is THE book on DARPA--a compelling narrative about this clandestine intersection of science and the American military and the often frightening results.

Annie Jacobsen is the author of the New York Times bestsellers Area 51 and Operation Paperclip and was a contributing editor at the Los Angeles Times Magazine. A graduate of Princeton University, she lives in Los Angeles with her husband and two sons.

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Book Published 2015-09-22 by Little, Brown
Book Published 2015-09-22 by Little, Brown

Comments

Annie Jacobsen's considerable talents as an investigative journalist prove indispensable in uncovering the remarkable history of one of America's most powerful and clandestine military research agencies. And she is a great storyteller, making the tantalizing tale of The Pentagon's Brain -- from the depths of the Cold War to present day -- come alive on every page.

[Jacobsen] was able to unearth fascinating—and occasionally chilling—details.

Jacobsen offers a definitive history of the clandestine agency…. She explores the implications of DARPA work on technology that will not be widely known to the public for generations but will certainly impact national security and concepts of war.

Filled with the intrigue and high stakes of a spy novel, Jacobsen's history of DARPA is as much a fascinating testament to human ingenuity as it is a paean to endless industrial warfare and the bureaucracy of the military-industrial complex.

A fascinating and unsettling portrait of the secretive U.S. government agency....Jacobsen walks a fine line in telling the story of the agency and its innovations without coming across as a cheerleader or a critic, or letting the narrative devolve into a salacious tell-all. Jacobsen's ability to objectively tell the story of DARPA, not to mention its murky past, is truly remarkable, making for a terrifically well-crafted treatise on the agency most Americans know next to nothing about.

[The Pentagon’s Brain] shines a light on the secretive organization behind many of the military’s high-tech advances of the past 50 years.

There is an important political observation in these pages… That’s a story that needs to be told, and The Pentagon’s Brain puts Jacobsen in the company of important writers who have supplied other versions of it, such as Harris and Rajiv Chandrasekran.