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For over four decades, Leo Marx's work has focused on the relationship between technology and culture in 19th- and 20th-century America. His research helped to define-and continues to give depth to-the area of American studies concerned with the links between scientific and technological advances, and the way society and cultureā¦
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My admiration for this book is demonstrated by the way in which I quite shamelessly ripped off its title for my own.Ā It has been said that America is the only nation that began perfect and hoped to improve.Ā The engine of that improvement, from the earliest days of the Republic, had been new technologies but by the middle of the pre-Civil War period some Americans began to realize that the āimprovementā they had unleashed was beginning to erode the very āperfectionā that they had hoped to enshrine in the nationās foundation.Ā Writers, artists, and creative intellectuals in general areā¦
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