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050 00 $aT786 1964.B1$bS36 2007
082 00 $a907.4/747243$222
100 1 $aSamuel, Lawrence R.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n96111200
245 14 $aThe end of the innocence :$bthe 1964-1965 New York World's Fair /$cLawrence R. Samuel.
246 10 $a1964-1965 New York World's Fair
246 1 $a1964 New York World's Fair
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aSyracuse, N.Y. :$bSyracuse University Press,$c2007.
300 $axxiii, 243 pages :$billustrations ;$c27 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 203-234) and index.
520 1 $a"From April to October in 1964 and 1965, some 52 million people from around the world flocked to the New York World's Fair, an experience that lives on in the memory of many individuals and in America's collective consciousness. Lawrence R. Samuel offers a thought-provoking portrait of this seminal event and of the cultural climate that surrounded it, countering critics' assessment of the Fair as the "ugly duckling" of global expositions. Although much attention has been paid to the controversial role of World's Fair president Robert Moses, who tried to use the event to ensure his personal legacy, the Fair itself was for the great majority of visitors an overwhelmingly positive, often inspirational, and sometimes transcendent experience that truly delivered on its theme of "peace through understanding." Much of the Fair's popularity, Samuel suggests, stemmed from its looking backward as much as forward, offering visitors sanctuary from the cultural storm that was rapidly approaching in the mid-1960s. Opening just five months after President Kennedy's assassination, the Fair allowed millions to celebrate international brotherhood while the conflict in Vietnam came to a boil. The Fair glorified the postwar American dream of limitless optimism just as a counterculture of sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll was coming into being. It was, in short, the last gasp of the American Dream: The End of the Innocence."--BOOK JACKET.
611 20 $aNew York World's Fair$d(1964-1965 :$cNew York, N.Y.)$xHistory.
600 10 $aMoses, Robert,$d1888-1981.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50007963
650 0 $aFairs$zNew York (State)$zNew York$xHistory.
650 0 $aNational characteristics, American$xHistory$y20th century.
650 0 $aNineteen sixty-four, A.D.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh97001817
856 41 $3Table of contents only$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0714/2007012973.html
852 00 $bbar$hT786 1964.B1$iS36 2007