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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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
[2013]
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Full text (MFA users only) |
| ISBN: | 9780812207811 0812207815 |
| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Table of 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.