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

✍ Scribed by Tirella, Joseph

Book ID: 108657101
Publisher: Lyons Press
Year: 2014
Tongue: English
Weight: 545 KB
Category: Fiction
ISBN-13: 9781493003327

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✦ Synopsis

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 Applefor 1964 and '65. Though considered a financial failure, the 1964-65 World's Fair was a Sixties flashpoint in areasfrom 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 and outerspace colonies to personal computers. It housed the controversialwork ofWarhol (until Governor Rockefeller had it removed); and lured Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters...

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