Drawing on material that never made it into the book, I presented 'The K-Bomb: Evolution, Anticommunism, and the 1953 Kinsey Report on Female Sexuality' at the colloquium of the IU Department of History and Philosophy of Science and Medicine.
A British literary critic suggested that when sizing up a book, turn to page 99 without looking at the front or back covers, and 'the quality of the whole will be revealed to you.' Or not.
Glenn Branch of the National Center for Science Education calls the book a 'splendid chronicle' of how creationists deployed anticommunism to combat evolutionary science.
Historian Bill Trollinger, coauthor with Sue Trollinger of Righting America at the Creation Museum (Johns Hopkins University Press) inteviewed me about the book.
Spotlights the grant I received from IU through the Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem program that enabled Cornell University Press to offer Red Dynamite as a free, open-access book, in addition to a paperback.
For many years, I have taught a senior seminar called 'The Meat We Eat' in the LAMP program at IU. Here I explain the connections between my research and this course.
