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Intro -- Contents -- Introduction: An Intimate and Distant Machine -- Part 1. God and Demon, 1790-1910 -- 1. The Republican Automaton -- 2. Humanizing the Industrial Machine -- 3. Mechanizing Men -- Part 2. Masters and Slaves, 1910-1945 -- 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 -- 8. Preserving American Innocence -- 9. The Postindustrial Gift -- 10. Cheerful Robots -- Epilogue: The American Robot -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index.