{"product_id":"the-years-work-in-nerds-wonks-and-neocons-hardcover-2","title":"The Year's Work in Nerds, Wonks, and Neocons - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJonathan P. Eburne\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eBenjamin Schreier\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eDennis W. Allen\u003c\/b\u003e (Contribution by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat happens when math nerds, band and theater geeks, goths, sci-fi fanatics, Young Republican debate poindexters, techies, Trekkies, D\u0026amp;D players, wallflowers, bookworms, and RPG players grow up? And what can they tell us about the life of the mind in the contemporary United States? With #GamerGate in the national news, shows like \u003ci\u003eThe Big Bang Theory\u003c\/i\u003e on ever-increasing numbers of screens, and Peter Orzsag and Paul Ryan on magazine covers, it is clear that nerds, policy wonks, and neoconservatives play a major role in today's popular culture in America. \u003ci\u003eThe Year's Work in Nerds, Wonks, and Neocons\u003c\/i\u003e delves into subcultures of intellectual history to explore their influence on contemporary American intellectual life. Not limiting themselves to describing how individuals are depicted, the authors consider the intellectual endeavors these depictions have come to represent, exploring many models and practices of learnedness, reflection, knowledge production, and opinion in the contemporary world. As teachers, researchers, and university scholars continue to struggle for mainstream visibility, this book illuminates the other forms of intellectual excitement that have emerged alongside them and found ways to survive and even thrive in the face of dismissal or contempt.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJonathan P. Eburne is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and English at Penn State. He is author of \u003ci\u003eSurrealism and the Art of Crime\u003c\/i\u003e and editor (with Judith Roof) of \u003ci\u003eThe Year's Work in the Oddball Archive\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBenjamin Schreier is Associate Professor of English and Jewish Studies and Lea P. and Malvin E. Bank Early Career Professor of Jewish Studies at Penn State University. He is author of \u003ci\u003eThe Power of Negative Thinking: Cynicism and the History of Modern American Literature\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Impossible Jew: Identity and the Reconstruction of Jewish American Literary History\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 378\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.1 x 7.2 x 6.3 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 17, 2017\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47386098630905,"sku":"9780253026187","price":97.2,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/Sr4mnc8R939780253026187_73ac43ab-006d-46b1-a7ee-b579655c58c9.webp?v=1770188804","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/the-years-work-in-nerds-wonks-and-neocons-hardcover-2","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}