02939cam a2200349 4500 541481198 TxAuBib 20211013120000.0 ||||||s2013||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781493003334 149300333X B00MJD9Y3A Amazon 65606e86-a055-4b9a-892e-b37365bd4f80 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 660813003324 660813003324 1475345 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Tirella, Joseph. Tomorrow-Land [Bridges eBook] : The 1964-65 World's Fair and the Transformation of America. Lyons Press, 2013. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 3140kB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. New York. HTML:<p>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.</p> <p>In an epic narrative, the <i>New York Times</i> bestseller <i>Tomorrow-Land</i> shows the astonishing pivots taken by New York City, America, <i>and</i> the world during the Fair. It fetched Disney's empire from California and Michelangelo's <i>La Pieta</i> from Europe; and displayed flickers of innovation from Ford, GM, and NASA—from undersea and outerspace 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 <i>right there in Queens</i>. 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.</p> <p>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.</p>. Nonfiction. History. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2021-12-09 17:22:37. https://samples.overdrive.com/tomorrow-land-65606e?.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/tomorrow-land-65606e?.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/tomorrow-land-65606e?.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)