Inventing the egghead [[electronic resource] ] : the battle over brainpower in American culture / / Aaron Lecklider
| Inventing the egghead [[electronic resource] ] : the battle over brainpower in American culture / / Aaron Lecklider |
| Autore | Lecklider Aaron |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Philadelphia, : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2013 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (294 p.) |
| Disciplina | 306.0973 |
| Soggetto topico |
Intellectuals - United States - History - 20th century
Popular culture - United States - History - 20th century |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 0-8122-0781-5 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- 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 1920's -- 4. "The Negro Genius": Black Intellectual Workers in the Harlem Renaissance -- 5. "We Have Only Words Against": Brainworkers and Books in the 1930's -- 6. Dangerous Minds: Spectacles of Science in the Postwar Atomic City -- 7. Inventing the Egghead: Brainpower in Cold War American Culture -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Index -- Acknowledgments |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910463528203321 |
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| Philadelphia, : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2013 | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Inventing the egghead [[electronic resource] ] : the battle over brainpower in American culture / / Aaron Lecklider
| Inventing the egghead [[electronic resource] ] : the battle over brainpower in American culture / / Aaron Lecklider |
| Autore | Lecklider Aaron |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Philadelphia, : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2013 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (294 p.) |
| Disciplina | 306.0973 |
| Soggetto topico |
Intellectuals - United States - History - 20th century
Popular culture - United States - History - 20th century |
| Soggetto non controllato |
American History
American Studies Cultural Studies History |
| ISBN | 0-8122-0781-5 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- 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 1920's -- 4. "The Negro Genius": Black Intellectual Workers in the Harlem Renaissance -- 5. "We Have Only Words Against": Brainworkers and Books in the 1930's -- 6. Dangerous Minds: Spectacles of Science in the Postwar Atomic City -- 7. Inventing the Egghead: Brainpower in Cold War American Culture -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Index -- Acknowledgments |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910788307503321 |
Lecklider Aaron
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| Philadelphia, : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2013 | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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