books.google.com.au - Chain Reaction is a work of recent American political history. It seeks to explain how and why America came to depend so heavily on its experts after World War II, how those experts translated that authority into political clout, and why that authority and political discretion declined in the 1970s....http://books.google.com.au/books/about/Chain_Reaction.html?id=MD4cPQAmF7oC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareChain Reaction