The End of the Innocence: The 1964-1965 New York Worlds Fair
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There was a problem filtering reviews right now. Please try again later. Skip the first half if you're not interested in the politics and finances. Kindle Edition Verified Purchase. This book is an excellent retrospectiv of the ' World's Fair. It maintains a positive tone and opinion of the fair itself without ignoring the social changes occuring at the time or the financial and political mismanagement happening behind the scenes.
The first half deals almost entirely with the management of the fair's finances as well as the politics involved. The first half does, however, address in more detail the contrast of the fair's idealized America compared to the social change taking place outside of Flushing Meadows.
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This is one of the few books that dives deeper into all aspects of the ' fair where others simply write it off as an assault by corporate America masked as a world's fair. Great read if you were actually there and it will especially interest you if you know NYC politics and who Robert Moses was. Otherwise too long and repetitive. One person found this helpful. More than you ever dreamed you'd know about the fair.
Stunning rare photos reveal a side of the Fair often overlooked, the interiors and crowds of the White City. The — New York World's Fair. Amazon Restaurants Food delivery from local restaurants. The Chicago World's Fair: It also traces events and thematic aspects of the fair, with its focus on science, technology, and the world of the future.
This book outlines all of the trials and tribulations of the fair's planners, and the financial problems that plagued it. But it still conveys the awe and wonder that many people still remember from the fair. It is very well researched and comprehensive. It contains fascinating details and anecdotes. If you are looking for an intriguing narrative as attempted in "Twilight at the World of Tomorrow" by James Mauro this might not be to your liking.
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There is no overarching drama, this is more of a text book or research piece. The book is not very well organized and the writing style is at times awkward.
The end of the innocence : the 1964-1965 New York World's Fair
The author could not decide between organizing the book chronologically or topically and so does both, leading to duplication and redundancy. Certain phrases and catch words, such as "whopping", are used excessively and can become annoying. One person found this helpful 2 people found this helpful. This is another very welcome entry into the growing body of books about World's Fairs a. Expo's which goes well beyond the picture books which, with a few notable exceptions, were all that was readily available to anyone interested in the fascinating history of these megaevents. While there are a few photos to illustrate key points, the real pleasure in reading this work is in getting the big picture on the machinations involved in the organization, finance and operation of the event and then "drilling down" into the details of the visitor experience including exhibits, food, and entertainment or the lack thereof, as the book discusses.
As a visitor to this event, I have vivid memories of many of the experiences I had at the Fair, including Belgian Waffles which, it turns out, were invented in Queens, or so the author contends. This wonderful novelty food delighted another very large crowd recently at the biggest Expo in history, Shanghai's Expo Those watershed events introduced millions of visitors to the fruits of industrial capitalism and served as auxiliary learning environments during the growth of public education. The world's fairs also represented the contradictions emerging from an unjust and incomplete democratic society.
World's fairs ceased to attract much attention after World War II in the United States, since they had to compete with a society organized around consumerism and mass entertainment. Fairs went the way of wild west shows and amusement parks, decrepit and uninteresting relics of the past. It has only been since or so that world's fairs have made a resurgence in a post-Communist world Most users should sign in with their email address. If you originally registered with a username please use that to sign in.
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You already recently rated this item. Your rating has been recorded. Write a review Rate this item: Preview this item Preview this item. The end of the innocence: Lawrence R Samuel Publisher: Syracuse University Press, 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.
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.
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