Recommendation: If you're interested in exploring a new perspective on technology's role in society, Pentagon of Power is a must-read. Mumford challenges common notions of progress and offers a unique and compelling vision for a more organic social order. The book is well-researched, making use of photographs and an index to back up his arguments.

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• National Book Award Finalist for Arts and Letters (1971)

In this concluding volume of The Myth of the Machine, Mumford brings to a head his radical revisions of the stale popular conceptions of human and technological progress. Far from being an attack on science and technics, The Pentagon of Power seeks to establish a more organic social order based on technological resources. Index; photographs.

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