The Cold War and the university : toward an intellectual history of the postwar years / Noam Chomsky ... [and others].

Includes bibliographical references.

Introduction / David Montgomery -- The Cold War and the Transformation of the Academy / R. C. Lewontin -- The Politics of History in the Era of the Cold War: Repression and Resistance / Howard Zinn -- English and the Cold War / Richard Ohmann -- The Phantom Factor: Impact of the Cold War on Anthropology / Laura Nader -- Doing Earth Science Research During the Cold War / Ray Siever -- The Cold War and the University / Noam Chomsky -- The Unintended Consequences of Cold War Area Studies / Immanuel Wallerstein -- The Subtle Politics of Developing Emergency: Political Science as Liberal Guardianship / Ira Katznelson.

The years following 1945 witnessed a massive change in American intellectual thought and in the life of American universities. The vast effort to mobilize intellectual talent during the war established new links between the government and the academy.

After the war, many of those who had worked with the military or the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) took jobs in the burgeoning postwar structure of university-based military research and the intelligence agencies, bringing infusions of government money into many fields.