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E-mail Message: I thought you might be interested in this item at http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/286422681 Title: Master mechanics & wicked wizards : images of the American scientist as hero and villain from colonial times to the present Author: Glen Scott Allen Publisher: Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, ©2009. ISBN/ISSN: 9781558497023 1558497021 9781558497030 155849703X OCLC:286422681

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Master mechanics & wicked wizards : images of the American scientist as hero and villain from colonial times to the present

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Master mechanics & wicked wizards : images of the American scientist as hero and villain from colonial times to the present

Author:	Glen Scott Allen
Publisher:	Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, ©2009.
Edition/Format:	Book : Biography : State or province government publication : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Additional Physical Format:	Online version: Allen, Glen Scott, 1950- Master mechanics & wicked wizards. Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, c2009 (OCoLC)607917846 Online version: Allen, Glen Scott, 1950- Master mechanics & wicked wizards. Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, c2009 (OCoLC)620851941
Material Type:	Biography, Government publication, State or province government publication, Internet resource
Document Type:	Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors:	Glen Scott Allen Find more information about:
ISBN:	9781558497023 1558497021 9781558497030 155849703X
OCLC Number:	286422681
Description:	304 p., [18] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
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."
Other Titles:	Master mechanics and wicked wizards
Responsibility:	Glen Scott Allen.

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