Survival City: Adventures Among the Ruins of Atomic America Contributor(s): Vanderbilt, Tom (Author) |
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ISBN: 0226846946 ISBN-13: 9780226846941 Publisher: University of Chicago Press OUR PRICE: $20.79 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 2010 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Architecture | History - Contemporary (1945 -) - Travel | Essays & Travelogues - Travel | Museums, Tours, Points Of Interest |
Dewey: 355.021 |
LCCN: 2009045733 |
Physical Information: 0.7" H x 5.9" W x 8.9" (0.70 lbs) 240 pages |
Themes: - Chronological Period - 20th Century |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: On the road to Survival City, Tom Vanderbilt maps the visible and invisible legacies of the cold war, exhuming the blueprints for the apocalypse we once envisioned and chronicling a time when we all lived at ground zero. In this road trip among ruined missile silos, atomic storage bunkers, and secret test sites, a lost battleground emerges amid the architecture of the 1950s, accompanied by Walter Cotten's stunning photographs. Survival City looks deep into the national soul, unearthing the dreams and fears that drove us during the latter half of the twentieth century. "A crucial and dazzling book, masterful, and for me at least, intoxicating."--Dave Eggers
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