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Title: Millikan's School: A History of the California Institute of Technology by Judith R. Goodstein ISBN: 0-393-03017-2 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: October, 1991 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $25.00

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Summary: The rise of a great research institution
Comment: In this book Judith Goodstein relates the rise of CalTech from its extremely modest origins as Throop to its boom after the Second World War. Along the way she provides a capsule history of the growth of American science itself. The view from Pasadena is slightly different from some others: there innovation came well before the Second World War.. and was not just part of the endless frontier of the Cold War. Goodstein, who has criticized scientists' penchant for doing their own hagiography, writes pleasantly and unsententiously about a place she knows very well. I hope she writes the sequel, as it were, telling what happened to that little school in Pasadena from the 50's onwards...

Goodstein has been archivist and registrar of the California Institute of Technology, and certainly knows whereof she speaks.