Think Tanks

“ … a timely and significant exposure of in an enterprise too long shrouded in darkness.” The Washington Post. “ …a controversial, thought-provoking, emotion-arousing book.”

New York Times. “… a hard-nosed exploration of the fascinating, yet potentially dangerous, influence on American life… well worth reading.”-- The Denver Post. “ … a commendable job of elucidating the character as well as the characteristics of the cerebral spores which are spawned by the nation’s quest for efficiency order and progress at all costs.”

The San Francisco Chronicle. “… a lively piece of investigative journalism.”

The St. Louis Post-Dispatch “… throws the spotlight on this new multibillion-dollar business that is transforming America and may even be serving as a kind of secret government.”

The Boston Globe An inside report on the remarkable idea factories-- from the pioneering RAND Corporation to Herman Kahn's haught Hudson Institute to Robert Hutchins' pundit-harboring Center for Democratic Institutions to Nader's Raiders, with a host of cerebral super-markets in between--that have made the brain business America's newest, and perhaps most fateful, industry.