Tomorrow-Land The 1964-65 World's Fair and the Transformation of America

Name: Tomorrow-Land The 1964-65 World's Fair and the Transformation of America
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ISBN: 9780762780358

ISBN-10: 0762780355

ISBN-13: 9780762780358

Edition: 2014

Authors: Joseph Tirella

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Motivated by potentially turning Flushing Meadows, literally a land of refuse, into his greatest public park, Robert Moses--New York's "Master Builder"--brought the World’s Fair to the Big Apple for 1964 and ’65. Though considered a financial failure, the 1964/65 World’s Fair was a Sixties flashpoint in areas from politics to pop culture, technology to urban planning, and civil rights to violent crime. In an epic narrative, Tomorrow-Land shows the astonishing pivots taken by New York City, America, and the world during the Fair. It fetched Disney’s empire from California and Michelangelo’s La Pieta from Europe; and displayed flickers of innovation from Ford, GM, and NASA--from undersea…

Book details

List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 2014
Publisher: Globe Pequot Press, The
Publication date: 1/7/2014
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 360
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.342
Language: English