President Eisenhower originally included 'academic' in the draft of his landmark, oft-quoted speech on the military-industrial-complex. This book tells why Eisenhower saw the academy as part of the famous complex - and how his warning was vitally prescient for 21st-century America.

Introduction; Chapter 1 Arming the Academy; Chapter 2 Marketing the University; Chapter 3 The New Right-Wing Assault on Higher Education; Chapter 4 Breaking the Chains;