"Prisoner's Dilemma" by William Poundstone (Doubleday, 1992; Oxford 
University Press, 1993)
It's an account of the genesis of game theory, in parallel with the 
closely linked history of the cold war arms race. In particular, it zooms 
in on the contribution of von Neumann to all this mularkey.  
I can't spot a category in the Book List that quite fits - certainly, the 
background on Game Theory is an important element in Artificial 
Intelligence, but the nearest that I can come to a categorization for 
this book is "Theoretical Politics, or Politically Applied Mathematics".
Andy