“American cold war culture represented an age of anxiety. The anxiety was so severe that it sought relief in an insistent, assertive optimism. Much of American popular culture aided this quest for apathetic security. The expanding white middle class sought… — W. Scott Poole Copy Share Image
“All the creatures of folklore and popular culture raise unanswered questions about the bodies we inhabit. The walking corpse horrifies because our bodies will bear a real resemblance to them someday, sans the perambulation. Medical oddities are distburbing because they… — W. Scott Poole Copy Share Image
“American cold war culture represented an age of anxiety. The anxiety was so severe that it sought relief in an insistent, assertive optimism. Much… — W. Scott Poole Copy Share Image
“Robert Boyle, the English scientist largely responsible for the creation of the modern discipline of chemistry, interviewed miners in the 1670s in an attempt… — W. Scott Poole Copy Share Image
“The monster in American history is not simply that which destroys. It is a being that must be destroyed. ...There can be no simple… — W. Scott Poole Copy Share Image
“All the creatures of folklore and popular culture raise unanswered questions about the bodies we inhabit. The walking corpse horrifies because our bodies will… — W. Scott Poole Copy Share Image
