By the Bomb's Early Light
American Thought and Culture At the Dawn of the Atomic Age
Second Edition
By Paul Boyer
New preface by the author
464 pp., 6.125 x 9.25
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Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8078-4480-9
Published: September 1994 -
E-book EPUB ISBN: 978-0-8078-7570-4
Published: October 2005 -
E-book PDF ISBN: 979-8-8908-6489-5
Published: October 2005
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The book is based on a wide range of sources, including cartoons, opinion polls, radio programs, movies, literature, song lyrics, slang, and interviews with leading opinion-makers of the time. Through these materials, Boyer shows the surprising and profoundly disturbing ways in which the bomb quickly and totally penetrated the fabric of American life, from the chillingly prophetic forecasts of observers like Lewis Mumford to the Hollywood starlet who launched her career as the 'anatomic bomb.'
In a new preface, Boyer discusses recent changes in nuclear politics and attitudes toward the nuclear age.
About the Author
Paul Boyer is Merle Curti Professor of History and director of the Institute for Research in the Humanities at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His books include When Time Shall Be No More: Prophecy Belief in Modern American Culture.
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"A highly perceptive, well-researched, and eloquent, often passionate, account."—American Historical Review
"Sobering. . . . [A] rich and disturbing chronicle."—Newsweek
“Very well written. . . . Both far-ranging and thorough.”—SpeedReaders.info