Machine-Age Ideology: Social Engineering and American Liberalism, 1911-1939

by John M. Jordan

Book Overview

In this interdisciplinary work, John Jordan traces the significant influence on American politics of a most unlikely hero: the professional engineer. Jordan shows how technical triumphs--bridges, radio broadcasting, airplanes, automobiles, skyscrapers, and electrical power--inspired social and political reformers to borrow the language and logic of engineering in the early twentieth century, bringing terms like efficiency, technocracy,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 080785736X
• ISBN13: 9780807857366
• Release Date: April 2009
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"