Frontmatter
Contents
Introduction: An Intimate and Distant Machine
Part 1. God and Demon, 1790- 1910
Introduction
1. The Republican Automaton
2. Humanizing the Industrial Machine
3. Mechanizing Men
Part 2. Masters and Slaves, 1910- 1945
Introduction
4. Symbolizing the Machine Age
5. Building the Slaves of Tomorrow
6. Conditioning the Robot's Brain
7. A War against the Machine Age
Part 3. Playfellow and Protector, 1945- 2019
Introduction
8. Preserving American Innocence
9. The Postindustrial Gift
10. Cheerful Robots
Epilogue: The American Robot
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index