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Inventing the egghead : the battle over brainpower in American culture
- Title
- Inventing the egghead : the battle over brainpower in American culture / Aaron Lecklider.
- Author
- Lecklider, Aaron.
- Publication
- Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2013.
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Details
- Description
- 285 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- 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.
- Call Number
- ILH 13-3830
- ISBN
- 9780812244861 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- 0812244869 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2012032987
- 40022115127
- OCLC
- 806291894
- Author
- Lecklider, Aaron.
- Title
- Inventing the egghead : the battle over brainpower in American culture / Aaron Lecklider.
- Imprint
- Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2013.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Standard Identifier
- 40022115127
- Research Call Number
- ILH 13-3830