In Freedom’s Laboratory, Audra Wolfe does a remarkable job resurrecting the covert and overt ways during the Cold War that the CIA and the U.S. government influenced science—and the way science, in turn, influenced the Cold War, from Iowa cornfields to genetics to biology textbooks. In doing so, she offers an important meditation on the true boundaries and meaning of “scientific freedom” in the titanic battle between the United States and the Soviet Union. Writing with the eye of a journalist and the authority of a scholar, Wolfe delivers a compelling new look behind the curtain of a still shadowy moment in history.