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WORLD WAR II AND THE WEST IT WROUGHT This page intentionally left blank WORLD WAR II AND THE WE S T IT WR O U GHT Edited by Mark Brilliant and David M. Kennedy STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS ❚ STANFORD, CALIFORNIA Stanford University Press Stanford, California ©2020 by the Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University. All rights reserved. Chapter 2 “Enlisting the Laboratories: Science, Defense, and the Transformation of the High- Tech West” ©2020 by Daniel J. Kevles. All rights reserved. This book has been published with the assistance of the Bill Lane Center for the American West. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system without the prior written permission of Stanford University Press. Printed in the United States of America on acid-free, archival-quality paper Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available upon request. ISBN 978-1-5036-1157-3 (cloth) ISBN 978-1-5036-1287-7 (paperback) ISBN 978-1-5036-1288-4 (electronic) Cover design: Jordan Wannemacher Cover photo: Ercoupe, assisted by six jets under the wings, leaves the Piper Cub still taxiing. Courtesy NASA/JPL-Caltech. Typeset by BookMatters in 10/14 Minion Pro CONTENTS Acknowledgments vii Introduction 1 Mark Brilliant and David M. Kennedy 1 Executive Domain: Military Reservations in the Wartime West 9 Jared Farmer 2 Enlisting the Laboratories: Science, Defense, and the Transformation of the High-Tech West 38 Daniel J. Kevles 3 World War II, the Cold War, and the Knowledge Economies of the Pacific Coast 74 Gavin Wright 4 The Politics Wrought by War: Phoenix, Seattle, and the Emergence of the Red-Blue Divide in the West, 1939–1950 100 Matthew Dallek 5 The Roots of Hispanic Conservatism in the Wartime West 121 Geraldo L. Cadava 6 “No Private School Could Ever Be As Satisfactory”: The Fight for Government-Funded Child Care in Postwar Los Angeles 143 Rebecca Jo Plant 7 How the Pacific World Became West 161 Mary L. Dudziak vi CONTENTS Afterword 179 Richard White Notes 185 Contributors 231 Index 235 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS In addition to the contributors to this volume, we thank Tim Egan and Alex Nemerov, who delivered keynote addresses at the 2017 conference that launched this project, as well as the several commentators whose remarks on that occasion informed the revisions of the chapters collected here. In alpha- betical order they are: Cathryn Carson, Sandra Eder, Rebecca Herman, Ana Raquael Minian, Christian Paiz, Daniel Sargent, and Louis Warren. We give special thanks to Stanford University’s Bill Lane Center for the American West for organizing the conference, graciously hosting all partici- pants, and supporting the publication of this book. This page intentionally left blank WORLD WAR II AND THE WEST IT WROUGHT
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