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Bob,
Go easy on Geoff, he's been trying to read [The Structure of Scientific Revolutions] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TheStructureofScientificRevolutions)... and it's been slow going. Personally, I think somebody should take Kuhn and turn it into a comic strip series. The brilliant and funny Jorge Cham has gotten partway there with his hilarious [Piled Higher and Deeper] (http://www.phdcomics.com/) about life in grad school.
I know of only two places that teach a course on science policy: MIT (by former Lieberman Legislative Director and now MIT DC office director William Bonvillian) had a 3-day intensive called the [Science and Policy Bootcamp] (http://student.mit.edu/searchiap/iap-7351.html), and Princeton (by former Liberman staffer Dr. Joseph Michels) entitled [Science, Politics and Policy] (http://web.princeton.edu/sites/writing/Writing_Seminar/WSFallContent.htm#161). There may be others out there, but I'll bet that no science department sponsors such a course.
Understanding the history of science policy, as well as the current structure of scientific funding and, for that matter, the Federal budgetary and spending process, can be extremely empowering to those who's livlihood depend on it.
So, to make a long answer short: I don't think a practical, readable history of science policy written for practicing scientists exists.
It should.
Peter