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Master mechanics & wicked wizards : images of the American scientist as hero and villain from colonial times to the present
- Title
- Master mechanics & wicked wizards : images of the American scientist as hero and villain from colonial times to the present / Glen Scott Allen.
- Author
- Allen, Glen Scott, 1950-
- Publication
- Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, c2009.
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Details
- Description
- 304 p., [18] p. of plates : ill.; 25 cm.
- Alternative Title
- Master mechanics and wicked wizards
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Simon pure amateurs : American scientists of the early nineteenth century -- Sex and the single mad scientist : domesticating scientific passion in nineteenth-century American fiction -- A cabinet of wonders : selling American science in the nineteenth century -- The world of tomorrow : technocracy as utopia in the age of pulps -- The incredible shrinking scientist : how the heroes of Los Alamos became internationalist traitors -- Invaders with Ph.D.'s : aliens, commies, and eggheads in science fiction films of the 1950s -- Fallout : politics and paranoia after the bomb -- Rocket science : (their) Sputniks + (our) dudniks = NASA -- Tom Swift and the cosmic astronauts : pilots, pitchmen, warriors, or mechanics? -- America vs. the evil empire(s) : good astronauts, bad aliens, and the battle for the high frontier -- Looking backward : useful vs. wicked inventing in colonial America -- Déjà vu all over again : fear, funding, and ignorance in contemporary scientific "controversies."
- Call Number
- JFE 09-4446
- ISBN
- 9781558497023 (lib. cloth : alk. paper)
- 1558497021 (lib. cloth : alk. paper)
- 9781558497030 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 155849703X (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2009007124
- OCLC
- 286422681
- Author
- Allen, Glen Scott, 1950-
- Title
- Master mechanics & wicked wizards : images of the American scientist as hero and villain from colonial times to the present / Glen Scott Allen.
- Imprint
- Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, c2009.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 09-4446