Hype pervades research into nanotechnology. In Nano-Hype, David Berube examines the various reasons that supporters of the NNI and nanotechnology have used to justify the massive commitment of funds: enormous economic payoffs in the form of new technologies; fundamental transformations in the nature of science and technology itself; the insuring of national competitiveness and national security. But he also surveys the field at this stage of its history, and the book is a comprehensive primer on the process of developing nanotechnology.

It is the rare scholar of American transportation history who has not used George Rogers Taylor’s The Transportation Revolution as the launchpad for his or her own research, and it remains a classic work of technological history.