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How the Supermarket Helped America Win the Cold War (Ep. 386 Rebroadcast)

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The Cold War Struggle for the Soul of Science

Wolfe's latest book is called freedom's laboratory, the cold war struggle for the soul of science. And it really looks ways that science, as an idea, became a tool for propaganda in the early nineteen fifties. Things like chicken breeding and hybrid corn took a out size and somewhat surprising role in u. S propaganda in the earlyeteen fifties....

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