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Tomorrow-land

the 1964-65 World's Fair and the transformation of America

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Joseph Tirella
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An edition of Tomorrow-land (2013)

Tomorrow-land

the 1964-65 World's Fair and the transformation of America

Unabridged.
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Motivated by the idea of 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 flash point 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 Piet︡a from Europe and displayed flickers of innovation from Ford, GM, and NASA--from undersea and outer-space colonies to personal computers. It housed the controversial work of Warhol (until Governor Rockefeller had it removed) and lured Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters. Meanwhile, the fair--and its house band, Guy Lombardo and his Royal Canadians--sat in the musical shadows of the Beatles and Bob Dylan, who changed rock and roll right there in Queens. And as southern civil rights efforts turned deadly, and violent protests also occurred in and around the fair, Harlem-based Malcolm X predicted a frightening future of inner-city racial conflict. World's Fairs have always been collisions of eras, cultures, nations, technologies, ideas, and art. But the trippy, turbulent, Technicolor, Disney, corporate, and often misguided 1964/65 fair was truly exceptional.

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English
Pages
12

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Tomorrow-Land: The 1964-65 World's Fair and the Transformation of America
2015, Globe Pequot Press, The
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Cover of: Tomorrow-Land
Tomorrow-Land: The 1964-65 World's Fair and the Transformation of America
2014, Globe Pequot Press, The
in English
Cover of: Tomorrow-land
Tomorrow-land: the 1964-65 World's Fair and the transformation of America
2014
sound recording : in English - Unabridged.
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2013, Globe Pequot Press, The
in English

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Edition Notes

Compact discs.

Duration: 12:30:00.

"Tracks every 3 minutes for easy bookmarking"--Container.

"Includes bonus PDF disc with notes from the book"--Container.

Read by Joe Barrett.

System requirements for accompanying CD-ROM: PC with Adobe Acrobat or other PDF reader.

Other Titles
Tomorrow land, Tomorrowland
Copyright Date
2014

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
607/.34747243
Library of Congress
T786 1964.B1 T57 2014ab

The Physical Object

Format
[sound recording] :
Pagination
10 audio discs (approximately 12 1/2 hr.)
Number of pages
12

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL26920468M
ISBN 10
1482971836, 1482971852
ISBN 13
9781482971835, 9781482971859
OCLC/WorldCat
868072983

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