| This study chronicles and interprets the rise of the first generation of policy think tanks in the United States in the first three decades of the twentieth century. It examines the rise of the Russell Sage Foundation, which was established in 1907; the Council on Foreign Relations, created in 1921; and the Brookings Institution, which was founded in 1927. Based on a reading of the works of the intellectual leaders of these think tanks, as well as the archives of these organizations, the study interprets the types of people who led the rise of the first group of policy think tanks. It concludes by showing the sense in which the intellectual leaders of the first think tanks were "scholar-statesmen."... |
