By the Bomb's Early Light: American Thought and Culture at the Dawn of the Atomic Age
- ISBN-10
- 0394528786
- ISBN-13
- 9780394528786
- Series
- By the Bomb's Early Light
- Category
- Atomic bomb
- Pages
- 440
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1985
- Publisher
- Pantheon Books
- Author
- Paul S. Boyer
Description
A history of the cultural side-effects of the atomic age examines cartoons, jingles, radio shows, slang, opinion polls, novels, and poetry of the 1940s to demonstrate how deeply the bomb penetrated American life and thought
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