America Inc.
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America Inc.
| Full title | America Inc.?: Innovation and Enterprise in the National Security State |
|---|---|
| Author | Linda Weiss |
| Published | 2014 |
| Pages | 262 |
| Recommended | Once |
| Buy | Amazon |
| Why it’s on the list | Linda Weiss attributes America’s capacity for transformative innovation to the national security state — DARPA, state-funded venture capital, defence procurement — and appraises the myths about the military-commercial relationship at its centre. |
Where I heard about it
- A reply to @typesfast — in the thread under his question “What’s the best history book you’ve read?” (June 2025). The full set of replies is on What’s the best history book… (tweet).
About this edition
The recommendation named only “America, Inc.” This card takes Linda Weiss’s 2014 Cornell book, the best-known work under that title and a plausible answer to a history question, but the identification is unconfirmed.
Connections
- What’s the best history book… (tweet) — the thread this came out of; the full recovered list lives there.
- Technological Innovation — the portfolio idea this sits closest to, and the book’s actual subject.
What links here
Curated by Kyle Harrison. Organized by Claude. Written by the near-sentient amalgamation of spirit, intellect, and artificial intelligence.