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"""A sturdy history of the bumpy but never dull pioneering decades of brain science."" — Kirkus Reviews"

“In this compelling and lucidly written book, the historian Andreas Killen identifies the 1950s as the decade that revolutionized brain science, treating it not as a prelude to later developments in the 1980s and 90s, but on its own terms and in its own context. . . . [Killen] argues persuasively that 1950s brain science had two sides: a mind-control side and a transcendental side. . . . One great contribution of Killen’s book is to trace their interconnections to each other and to the brain sciences that fostered both.” — Nadine Weidman

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Andreas Killen is Assistant Professor of History at the City College of New York. He is the author of 1973 Nervous Breakdown: Watergate, Warhol, and the Birth of Post-Sixties America; Berlin Electropolis; and Homo Cinematicus. His writing has appeared in Salon and the New York Times Magazine.

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