Inventing the egghead : the battle over brainpower in American culture /

Throughout the twentieth century, popular songs, magazine articles, plays, posters, and novels alternated between representing intelligence as empowering and as threatening. In this book, the author cracks open this paradox by examining representations of intelligence to reveal brainpower's sta...

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Main Author: Lecklider, Aaron
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2013]
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Online Access: Full text (MFA users only)
ISBN:9780812207811
0812207815
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central