ISBN:
9780812244861
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (285 p)
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ill
Edition:
1st ed
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2013 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Parallel Title:
Print version Inventing the Egghead : The Battle over Brainpower in American Culture
DDC:
306.0973
Keywords:
Popular culture History 20th century
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Intellectuals History 20th century
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Intellectuals -- United States -- History -- 20th century
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Popular culture -- United States -- History -- 20th century
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United States -- Intellectual life -- 20th century
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Intellectuals ; United States ; History ; 20th century
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Popular culture ; United States ; History ; 20th century
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United States ; Intellectual life ; 20th century
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Electronic books
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United States Intellectual life 20th century
Abstract:
Throughout the twentieth century, popular songs, magazine articles, plays, posters, and novels alternated between representing intelligence as empowering and as threatening. In Inventing the Egghead, Aaron Lecklider cracks open this paradox by examining representations of intelligence to reveal brainpower's stalwart appeal and influence.
Abstract:
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- 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 Renaissance -- 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 -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Acknowledgments.
Description / Table of Contents:
""Cover""; ""Title""; ""Copyright""; ""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 Renaissance""; ""5. "We Have Only Words Against": Brainworkers and Books in the 1930s""; ""6. Dangerous Minds: Spectacles of Science in the Postwar Atomic City""
Description / Table of Contents:
""7. Inventing the Egghead: Brainpower in Cold War American Culture""""Epilogue""; ""Notes""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""Acknowledgments""
Note:
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