Aaron Lecklider

Inventing the Egghead

The Battle Over Brainpower in American Culture

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Produktbeschreibung

Aaron Lecklider teaches American Studies at the University of Massachusetts Boston.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. April 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 155mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 572g
• ISBN-13: 9780812244861
• ISBN-10: 0812244869
• Artikelnr.: 37502153

Autorenporträt

Aaron Lecklider teaches American Studies at the University of Massachusetts Boston.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Or, They Think We're Stupid
Chapter 1. "Aren't We Educational Here Too?": Brainpower and the Emergence
of Mass Culture
Chapter 2. The Force of Complicated Mathematics: Einstein Enters American
Culture
Chapter 3. Knowledge Is Power: Women, Workers' Education, and Brainpower in
the 1920s
Chapter 4. "The Negro Genius": Black Intellectual Workers in the Harlem
Renaissance
Chapter 5. "We Have Only Words Against": Brainworkers and Books in the
1930s
Chapter 6. Dangerous Minds: Spectacles of Science in the Postwar Atomic
City
Chapter 7. Inventing the Egghead: Brainpower in Cold War American Culture
Epilogue
Notes
Index
Acknowledgments