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Globe Pequot Press, T.H.E.
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0762780355
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Tomorrow-Land : the 1964-65 World's Fair and the Transformation of America
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360 Pages
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English
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United States / State & Local / Middle Atlantic (DC, De, Md, NJ, NY, Pa), United States / 20th Century, Sociology / General, General, Customs & Traditions
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2014
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"In an interesting and original way, Joseph Tirella has used the storied setting of the 1964-65 World's Fair in New York to describe the entrepreneurial spirit, the criminal nature, the egalitarian tendencies, and inevitable compromises that characterized a complex and important period in the history of the city and the nation." --Gay Talese, author of The Kingdom and the Power , The Bridge , and A Writer's Life "As much a history of mid-Sixties America as it is a history of the World's Fair in Queens, New York, Joseph Tirella's entertaining and impeccably researched Tomorrow-Land brings the forces and players of that turbulent era crackling to life." --Emily Raboteau, author of Searching for Zion: The Quest for Home in the African Diaspora "With Tomorrow-Land , Joseph Tirella makes a riveting case for Queens, New York, as the origin of all that is great and modern in today's America. If you've ever wondered what Robert Moses, Andy Warhol, and Malcolm X have in common, this book connects the dots and more. Tirella breathes in all the tumult and cultural vertigo surrounding the 1964 World's Fair, and exhales an intoxicating swirl of pure possibility." --Alec Foege, author of The Tinkerers: The Amateurs, DIYers, and Inventors Who Make America Great "This book is filled with fascinating stories about global political contests between the Soviet Union and the United States, domestic protests against social inequality, the politics of massive resistance waged by conservatives of both major parties, corporations playing social engineering games, America becoming a multicultural nation, and New York City experiencing massive physical change. Joseph Tirella's Tomorrow-Land takes us back in time fifty years and documents through thorough research and wonderful narrative how the World's Fair fell short of its goal to promote, 'Peace Through Understanding,' but still managed to give America an accurate vision of its future self." --Brian Purnell, Africana Studies and History, Bowdoin College, and author of Fighting Jim Crow in the County of Kings: The Congress of Racial Equality in Brooklyn "First-time author Tirella, a former reporter for the New York Times , adroitly switches focus from [Robert] Moses and the fair to external events in the city, nation and world and back again, following several disparate threads--the civil rights dialectic between Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr., a New York City obscenity crusade that targeted Lenny Bruce and the gay bohemian subculture, the parallel paths of the Beatles and Bob Dylan, the escalation of the Vietnam War--and never losing control of the narrative's forward momentum.... [T]he World's Fair provides an excellent perspective on the 1960s in America.... Top-notch popular history." -- Kirkus Reviews, "Tirella explores the contrast between the purported idealism of the 1964 World''s Fair and the conflict and compromise that surrounded the event.... The Kennedy assassination, Vietnam, rising urban crime and racial strife provide the backdrop for Tirella''s detailed history." -- The New York Times Book Review "In an interesting and original way, Joseph Tirella has used the storied setting of the 1964-65 World''s Fair in New York to describe the entrepreneurial spirit, the criminal nature, the egalitarian tendencies, and inevitable compromises that characterized a complex and important period in the history of the city and the nation." --Gay Talese, author of The Kingdom and the Power , The Bridge , and A Writer''s Life "Literary lovechild of: Robert A. Caro''s The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York and Erik Larson''s The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America. " -- Slate "As much a history of mid-Sixties America as it is a history of the World''s Fair in Queens, New York, Joseph Tirella''s entertaining and impeccably researched Tomorrow-Land brings the forces and players of that turbulent era crackling to life." --Emily Raboteau, author of Searching for Zion: The Quest for Home in the African Diaspora "With Tomorrow-Land , Joseph Tirella makes a riveting case for Queens, New York, as the origin of all that is great and modern in today''s America. If you''ve ever wondered what Robert Moses, Andy Warhol, and Malcolm X have in common, this book connects the dots and more. Tirella breathes in all the tumult and cultural vertigo surrounding the 1964 World''s Fair, and exhales an intoxicating swirl of pure possibility." --Alec Foege, author of The Tinkerers: The Amateurs, DIYers, and Inventors Who Make America Great "This book is filled with fascinating stories about global political contests between the Soviet Union and the United States, domestic protests against social inequality, the politics of massive resistance waged by conservatives of both major parties, corporations playing social engineering games, America becoming a multicultural nation, and New York City experiencing massive physical change. Joseph Tirella''s Tomorrow-Land takes us back in time fifty years and documents through thorough research and wonderful narrative how the World''s Fair fell short of its goal to promote, ''Peace Through Understanding,'' but still managed to give America an accurate vision of its future self." --Brian Purnell, Africana Studies and History, Bowdoin College, and author of Fighting Jim Crow in the County of Kings: The Congress of Racial Equality in Brooklyn "First-time author Tirella, a former reporter for the New York Times , adroitly switches focus from [Robert] Moses and the fair to external events in the city, nation and world and back again, following several disparate threads--the civil rights dialectic between Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr., a New York City obscenity crusade that targeted Lenny Bruce and the gay bohemian subculture, the parallel paths of the Beatles and Bob Dylan, the escalation of the Vietnam War--and never losing control of the narrative''s forward momentum.... [T]he World''s Fair provides an excellent perspective on the 1960s in America.... Top-notch popular history." -- Kirkus Reviews "A model of accessible narrative, showing the author''s immersion in archival research, this book will be appreciated most by those who love reading about Sixties or New York City history or, of course, world''s fairs." -- Library Journal, "As much a history of mid-Sixties America as it is a history of the World's Fair in Queens, New York, Joseph Tirella's entertaining and impeccably researched Tomorrow-Land brings the forces and players of that turbulent era crackling to life." --Emily Raboteau, author of Searching for Zion: The Quest for Home in the African Diaspora, "In an interesting and original way, Joseph Tirella has used the storied setting of the 1964-65 World's Fair in New York to describe the entrepreneurial spirit, the criminal nature, the egalitarian tendencies, and inevitable compromises that characterized a complex and important period in the history of the city and the nation." --Gay Talese, author of The Kingdom and the Power , The Bridge , and A Writer's Life "As much a history of mid-Sixties America as it is a history of the World's Fair in Queens, New York, Joseph Tirella's entertaining and impeccably researched Tomorrow-Land brings the forces and players of that turbulent era crackling to life." --Emily Raboteau, author of Searching for Zion: The Quest for Home in the African Diaspora "With Tomorrow-Land , Joseph Tirella makes a riveting case for Queens, New York, as the origin of all that is great and modern in today's America. If you've ever wondered what Robert Moses, Andy Warhol, and Malcolm X have in common, this book connects the dots and more. Tirella breathes in all the tumult and cultural vertigo surrounding the 1964 World's Fair, and exhales an intoxicating swirl of pure possibility." --Alec Foege, author of The Tinkerers: The Amateurs, DIYers, and Inventors Who Make America Great "This book is filled with fascinating stories about global political contests between the Soviet Union and the United States, domestic protests against social inequality, the politics of massive resistance waged by conservatives of both major parties, corporations playing social engineering games, America becoming a multicultural nation, and New York City experiencing massive physical change. Joseph Tirella's Tomorrow-Land takes us back in time fifty years and documents through thorough research and wonderful narrative how the World's Fair fell short of its goal to promote, 'Peace Through Understanding,' but still managed to give America an accurate vision of its future self." --Brian Purnell, Africana Studies and History, Bowdoin College, and author of Fighting Jim Crow in the County of Kings: The Congress of Racial Equality in Brooklyn , "In an interesting and original way, Joseph Tirella has used the storied setting of the 1964-65 World's Fair in New York to describe the entrepreneurial spirit, the criminal nature, the egalitarian tendencies, and inevitable compromises that characterized a complex and important period in the history of the city and the nation." --Gay Talese, author of The Kingdom and the Power , The Bridge , and A Writer's Life "As much a history of mid-Sixties America as it is a history of the World's Fair in Queens, New York, Joseph Tirella's entertaining and impeccably researched Tomorrow-Land brings the forces and players of that turbulent era crackling to life." --Emily Raboteau, author of Searching for Zion: The Quest for Home in the African Diaspora, "In an interesting and original way, Joseph Tirella has used the storied setting of the 1964-65 World's Fair in New York to describe the entrepreneurial spirit, the criminal nature, the egalitarian tendencies, and inevitable compromises that characterized a complex and important period in the history of the city and the nation." --Gay Talese, author of The Kingdom and the Power , The Bridge , and A Writer's Life "Literary lovechild of: Robert A. Caro's The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York and Erik Larson's The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America. " -- Slate "As much a history of mid-Sixties America as it is a history of the World's Fair in Queens, New York, Joseph Tirella's entertaining and impeccably researched Tomorrow-Land brings the forces and players of that turbulent era crackling to life." --Emily Raboteau, author of Searching for Zion: The Quest for Home in the African Diaspora "With Tomorrow-Land , Joseph Tirella makes a riveting case for Queens, New York, as the origin of all that is great and modern in today's America. If you've ever wondered what Robert Moses, Andy Warhol, and Malcolm X have in common, this book connects the dots and more. Tirella breathes in all the tumult and cultural vertigo surrounding the 1964 World's Fair, and exhales an intoxicating swirl of pure possibility." --Alec Foege, author of The Tinkerers: The Amateurs, DIYers, and Inventors Who Make America Great "This book is filled with fascinating stories about global political contests between the Soviet Union and the United States, domestic protests against social inequality, the politics of massive resistance waged by conservatives of both major parties, corporations playing social engineering games, America becoming a multicultural nation, and New York City experiencing massive physical change. Joseph Tirella's Tomorrow-Land takes us back in time fifty years and documents through thorough research and wonderful narrative how the World's Fair fell short of its goal to promote, 'Peace Through Understanding,' but still managed to give America an accurate vision of its future self." --Brian Purnell, Africana Studies and History, Bowdoin College, and author of Fighting Jim Crow in the County of Kings: The Congress of Racial Equality in Brooklyn "First-time author Tirella, a former reporter for the New York Times , adroitly switches focus from [Robert] Moses and the fair to external events in the city, nation and world and back again, following several disparate threads--the civil rights dialectic between Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr., a New York City obscenity crusade that targeted Lenny Bruce and the gay bohemian subculture, the parallel paths of the Beatles and Bob Dylan, the escalation of the Vietnam War--and never losing control of the narrative's forward momentum.... [T]he World's Fair provides an excellent perspective on the 1960s in America.... Top-notch popular history." -- Kirkus Reviews "A model of accessible narrative, showing the author's immersion in archival research, this book will be appreciated most by those who love reading about Sixties or New York City history or, of course, world's fairs." -- Library Journal, "In an interesting and original way, Joseph Tirella has used the storied setting of the 196465 World's Fair in New York to describe the entrepreneurial spirit, the criminal nature, the egalitarian tendencies, and inevitable compromises that characterized a complex and important period in the history of the city and the nation." -Gay Talese, author of The Kingdom and the Power , The Bridge , and A Writer's Life "As much a history of mid-Sixties America as it is a history of the World's Fair in Queens, New York, Joseph Tirella's entertaining and impeccably researched Tomorrow-Land brings the forces and players of that turbulent era crackling to life." -Emily Raboteau, author of Searching for Zion: The Quest for Home in the African Diaspora "With Tomorrow-Land , Joseph Tirella makes a riveting case for Queens, New York, as the origin of all that is great and modern in today's America. If you've ever wondered what Robert Moses, Andy Warhol, and Malcolm X have in common, this book connects the dots and more. Tirella breathes in all the tumult and cultural vertigo surrounding the 1964 World's Fair, and exhales an intoxicating swirl of pure possibility." -Alec Foege, author of The Tinkerers: The Amateurs, DIYers, and Inventors Who Make America Great "This book is filled with fascinating stories about global political contests between the Soviet Union and the United States, domestic protests against social inequality, the politics of massive resistance waged by conservatives of both major parties, corporations playing social engineering games, America becoming a multicultural nation, and New York City experiencing massive physical change. Joseph Tirella's Tomorrow-Land takes us back in time fifty years and documents through thorough research and wonderful narrative how the World's Fair fell short of its goal to promote, 'Peace Through Understanding,' but still managed to give America an accurate vision of its future self." -Brian Purnell, Africana Studies and History, Bowdoin College, and author of Fighting Jim Crow in the County of Kings: The Congress of Racial Equality in Brooklyn , "In an interesting and original way, Joseph Tirella has used the storied setting of the 1964-65 World's Fair in New York to describe the entrepreneurial spirit, the criminal nature, the egalitarian tendencies, and inevitable compromises that characterized a complex and important period in the history of the city and the nation." --Gay Talese, author of The Kingdom and the Power , The Bridge , and A Writer's Life "As much a history of mid-Sixties America as it is a history of the World's Fair in Queens, New York, Joseph Tirella's entertaining and impeccably researched Tomorrow-Land brings the forces and players of that turbulent era crackling to life." --Emily Raboteau, author of Searching for Zion: The Quest for Home in the African Diaspora "With Tomorrow-Land , Joseph Tirella makes a riveting case for Queens, New York, as the origin of all that is great and modern in today's America. If you've ever wondered what Robert Moses, Andy Warhol, and Malcolm X have in common, this book connects the dots and more. Tirella breathes in all the tumult and cultural vertigo surrounding the 1964 World's Fair, and exhales an intoxicating swirl of pure possibility." --Alec Foege, author of The Tinkerers: The Amateurs, DIYers, and Inventors Who Make America Great "This book is filled with fascinating stories about global political contests between the Soviet Union and the United States, domestic protests against social inequality, the politics of massive resistance waged by conservatives of both major parties, corporations playing social engineering games, America becoming a multicultural nation, and New York City experiencing massive physical change. Joseph Tirella's Tomorrow-Land takes us back in time fifty years and documents through thorough research and wonderful narrative how the World's Fair fell short of its goal to promote, 'Peace Through Understanding,' but still managed to give America an accurate vision of its future self." --Brian Purnell, Africana Studies and History, Bowdoin College, and author of Fighting Jim Crow in the County of Kings: The Congress of Racial Equality in Brooklyn "First-time author Tirella, a former reporter for the New York Times , adroitly switches focus from [Robert] Moses and the fair to external events in the city, nation and world and back again, following several disparate threads--the civil rights dialectic between Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr., a New York City obscenity crusade that targeted Lenny Bruce and the gay bohemian subculture, the parallel paths of the Beatles and Bob Dylan, the escalation of the Vietnam War--and never losing control of the narrative's forward momentum.... [T]he World's Fair provides an excellent perspective on the 1960s in America.... Top-notch popular history." -- Kirkus Reviews "A model of accessible narrative, showing the author's immersion in archival research, this book will be appreciated most by those who love reading about Sixties or New York City history or, of course, world's fairs." -- Library Journal
Dewey Edition
23
Dewey Decimal
607/.34747243
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 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.In an epic narrative, the New York Times bestseller 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 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., 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.In an epic narrative, the New York Times bestseller 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 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., This New York Times bestseller is a vivid account of the 1964-65 World's Fair in New York City, a spectacle that embodied the innovation, lunacy, hope, and fear of a dramatic twenty-first century decade--and one that pitted Robert Moses vs. Andy Warhol, brought the vision of Walt Disney together with the Merry Pranksters, featured an Audio-Animatronic Abraham Lincoln and real-life LBJ in the midst of the Civil Rights struggle, and featured much, much more. Tomorrow-Land entertains, informs, and illustrates how the 1964-65 World's Fair--inside its gates and just outside its gates--represents the cultural and political pivots taken by New York City, America, and the world during the 1960s.
LC Classification Number
T786 1964.B1T57 2014
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