So what is the lasting legacy of GE on the Vonnegut Brothers? On the professional, General Electric fundamentally changed and impacted the career path for both men. Kurt discovered that writing was his passion, he left the company after his... Continue Reading →
Cat’s Cradle was begun shortly after the publication of Player Piano because Kurt felt that there was still a story about GE to be told. It was published in 1963 and is much more a story “the scientist” as a... Continue Reading →
The two novels which I am focusing on were published well after Kurt left GE, however the significance of General Electric spills over into the two works. Player Piano, published in 1952, is a novel set in a near future... Continue Reading →
Kurt Vonnegut Jr, was born on November 11, 1922, Armistice Day. Unlike Bernard and their sister, Alice, Kurt was the only one of the Vonnegut children to attend public school, due to his family losing the majority of their money... Continue Reading →
The impetus for Project Cirrus lay in the earlier project of de-icing airplane wings. Now, however, rather than looking to react to the weather, the United States military was looking for a means of controlling it. The rationale for the... Continue Reading →
Bernard Vonnegut was born on August 29, 1914 to Kurt Sr. and Edith Vonnegut in Indianapolis, Indiana. At the time, Edith was a brewing heiress and Kurt Sr. was a successful architect, and both were from wealthy families of German... Continue Reading →
The end of the Second World War saw a rise in both government sponsored corporate research and corporations, such as General Electric, influencing the mentalities of both scientists and ordinary Americans. The General Electric Company had been a fixture in... Continue Reading →
Edited collections provide a useful space for history graduate students to witness different historical approaches to similar topics in a way that single author texts do not allow. I found that the ability to pick and choose which pieces to... Continue Reading →
If the readings which we have done so far have taught me anything, it is that there is much in the very idea of an American culture that is constructed and fabricated. The idea of homogeneity in the 1950s, as... Continue Reading →
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