94 Michael Hiltzik - The Invention That Launched the Military-Industrial Complex

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🗓️ 17 July 2015

⏱️ 55 minutes

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On the show this week we talk to Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Michael Hiltzik about his new book Big Science: Ernest Lawrence and the Invention that Launched the Military-Industrial Complex.Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/inquiringminds

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