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Power Button

A History of Pleasure, Panic, and the Politics of Pushing
  • Rachel Plotnick
2018
MIT Press

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Featured Excerpts

  • Photo illustration of a button causing death courtesy of MIT Press Reader.
    Book Excerpt

    How Americans Got Comfortable With Killing at the Push of a Button

    For years, the idea seemed immoral and dangerous.
    by Rachel Plotnick via Slate on June 20, 2022
  • Sign showing a hand pushing a button.
    Book Review

    Cute as a Button? Think Twice

    A new book examines the first generation of button-pushing Americans at the turn of the 20th century.
    by Anna Feuer via Los Angeles Review of Books on November 30, 2018
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