Biologists and the Promise of American Life From Meriwether Lewis to Alfred Kinsey

"There is no book that covers quite the same territory and places this cluster of internal disciplinary issues in a larger institutional and cultural/political context. Philip Pauly is well informed about current scholarship and has a good eye for the telling quotation or incident."--Charles E. Rosenberg, University of Pennsylvania "This is a stunning book both for the courage, ambition, and vision of its topic and for the solid style of its achievement."--Mary P. Winsor, University of Toronto "Philip Pauly is a first-rate American historian, one of the most imaginative writers today. He is not just a historian of science, but rather a historian of the ways that science plays out in American culture and society.Biologists and the Promise of American Lifeis an excellent and important book that will reach a wide audience--it will be useful for scholars and classrooms alike, and entice historians of science to expand their perspective. And it's fun to read, with a good mix of stories, personalities, practices, resources, and references."--Jane Maienschein, Arizona State UniversityPauly, Philip J. is the author of 'Biologists and the Promise of American Life From Meriwether Lewis to Alfred Kinsey', published 2002 under ISBN 9780691092867 and ISBN 0691092869.