Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World Highlight

A professor in a hastily constructed basement jail taking notes while he pays out of the defense budget for one group of college students to torture another was a natural result of the Terman postwar plan for Stanford. So was a campus hospital full of 1,000 very, very quiet veterans swallowing whatever they were given. So was the personal computer. And all of it was war work in the global struggle against communism.