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American Nerd: The Story of My People
American Nerd: The Story of My People, One of the season's most talked about cultural studies (<i>Los Angeles</i> <i>Times</i>)—an incisive and irreverent appreciation of nerds that combines history, sociology, psychology, and memoir from noted journalist and self-proclaimed nerd Ben Nuge, American Nerd: The Story of My People has a rating of 2 stars
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American Nerd: The Story of My People, One of the season's most talked about cultural studies (Los Angeles Times)—an incisive and irreverent appreciation of nerds that combines history, sociology, psychology, and memoir from noted journalist and self-proclaimed nerd Ben Nuge, American Nerd: The Story of My People
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  • American Nerd: The Story of My People
  • Written by author Benjamin Nugent
  • Published by Simon & Schuster Adult Publishing Group, June 2009
  • "One of the season's most talked about cultural studies" (Los Angeles Times)—an incisive and irreverent appreciation of nerds that combines history, sociology, psychology, and memoir from noted journalist and self-proclaimed nerd Ben Nuge
  • Most people know a nerd when they see one but can't define just what a nerd is. American Nerd: The Story of My People gives us the history of the concept of nerdiness and of the subcultures we consider nerdy. What makes Dr. Frankenstein the arc
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Part 1 A History of the Nerd

What is a Nerd? 5

The Mark of Greatness 13

Newt Envy, and Were There Nerds in the Nineteenth Century? 17

The Case Against Scientists in Towers 23

The Rise of Phys Ed 29

Dawn of the Fan 39

Sherry Turkle, T. S. Eliot, and the Split Between Feeling and Thinking 49

The Word Nerd and the Birth and Growth of the Guy in High Pants and Glasses 55

Effeminate Jewish Grinds, Cyborg Asians 73

Part 2 Among the Nerds

Zack and Jack and High-School Debate 99

Case Study: Darren From the Ghetto of Amherst 111

The Cool Nerd: Superficial Reflections on the Hipster 119

Nerd Love 131

The Autism Spectrum 141

Pure Pwnage 153

The Graying of the Old-School Nerd 163

Coronation, or Why Group Nerd Events are Necessary 171

Why do People Like Dungeons & Dragons and Fake Swords? 183

Case study: Kenneth The Demonslayer 195

Part 3 My Credentials 211

Afterword 225

Acknowledgments 235


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