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Inventing the Egghead : The Battle over Brainpower in American Culture /
Throughout the twentieth century, pop songs, magazine articles, plays, posters, and novels in the United States represented intelligence alternately as empowering or threatening. In Inventing the Egghead, cultural historian Aaron Lecklider offers a sharp, entertaining narrative of these sources to r...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
[2013]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- Introduction: Or, They Think We're Stupid
- 1. "Aren't We Educational Here Too?": Brainpower and the Emergence of Mass Culture
- 2. The Force of Complicated Mathematics: Einstein Enters American Culture
- 3. Knowledge Is Power: Women, Workers' Education, and Brainpower in the 1920s
- 4. "The Negro Genius": Black Intellectual Workers in the Harlem Re nais sance
- 5. "We Have Only Words Against": Brainworkers and Books in the 1930s
- 6. Dangerous Minds: Spectacles of Science in the Postwar Atomic City
- 7. Inventing the Egghead: Brainpower in Cold War American Culture
- Epilogue
- Notes
- Index
- Acknowledgments