Matthew Wisnioski. Engineers for Change: Competing Visions of Technology in 1960s America. xvii + 286 pp., illus., bibl., indexes. Cambridge, Mass./London: MIT Press, 2012. $35

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Matthew Wisnioski. Engineers for Change: Competing Visions of Technology in 1960s America. xvii + 286 pp., illus., bibl., indexes. Cambridge, Mass./London: MIT Press, 2012. $35 [Book Review]

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