Inventing the egghead : the battle over brainpower in American culture /

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Throughout the twentieth century, popular songs, magazine articles, plays, posters, and novels alternated between representing intelligence as empowering and as threatening. In this book, the author cracks open this paradox by examining representations of intelligence to reveal brainpower's sta...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Lecklider, Aaron
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2013]
Edición:1st ed.
Colección:EBL-Schweitzer
Temas:
1900-1999
Popular culture > United States > History > 20th century.
Intellectuals > United States > History > 20th century.
Culture populaire > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Intellectuels > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siècle.
HISTORY > United States > 20th Century.
Intellectual life.
Intellectuals.
Popular culture.
United States > Intellectual life > 20th century.
États-Unis > Vie intellectuelle > 20e siècle.
United States.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : Or, They Think We're Stupid
  • "Aren't We Educational Here Too?" : Brainpower and the Emergence of Mass Culture
  • The Force of Complicated Mathematics : Einstein Enters American Culture
  • Knowledge Is Power : Women, Workers' Education, and Brainpower in the 1920s
  • "The Negro Genius" : Black Intellectual Workers in the Harlem Renaissance
  • "We Have Only Words Against" : Brainworkers and Books in the 1930s
  • Dangerous Minds : Spectacles of Science in the Postwar Atomic City
  • Inventing the Egghead : Brainpower in Cold War American Culture
  • Epilogue.

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