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Master mechanics & wicked wizards : images of the American scientist as hero and villain from colonial times to the present / Glen Scott Allen.
| Author/creator | Allen, Glen Scott, 1950- |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, ©2009. |
| Description | 304 pages, 18 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Subjects |
| Variant title | Master mechanics and wicked wizards |
| 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." |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| LCCN | 2009007124 |
| ISBN | 9781558497023 (lib. cloth : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 1558497021 (lib. cloth : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9781558497030 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 155849703X (pbk. : alk. paper) |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joyner | General Stacks | Q127.U6 A6815 2009 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |