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The lie detectors : the history of an American obsession / Ken Alder.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Alder, Ken.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Lie detectors and detection--United States--History.
- Lie detectors and detection.
- Polygraph operators--United States--History.
- Polygraph operators.
- History.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 334 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Free Press, [2007]
- Summary:
- The idea was mesmerizing--a scientific instrument that could reveal if someone was lying. From the award-winning author of "The Measure of All Things" comes the story of an invention that destroyed the souls of its inventors but captured the heart of 20th-century America.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [313]-318) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0743259882
- 9780743259880
- OCLC:
- 76143757
- Online:
- Publisher description
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