Aaron LeckliderInventing the Egghead
The Battle Over Brainpower in American Culture
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
