2 science history books

[kelber at mindspring.com]

Interesting.  Seems like a good reference to add somewhere in the Pynchon wiki.

-----Original Message-----
>From: Monte Davis <monte.davis at verizon.net>

 Michael Lesy's Dreamland arrived this
>morning, and I'm doubling down on my earlier speculative bet that it was a
>source for AtD.
>
>My not-coincidence-o-meter is pegged by too many pictures of Telluride,
>Durango, leafy rural roads near Cleveland, battleships, etc... punctuated
>with a capsule timeline 1900-1910 of the US economy, labor unrest, pop
>culture.
>