| Tomorrow-Land: The 1964-65 World's Fair and the Transformation of America Library Edition Contributor(s): Tirella, Joseph (Author), Barrett, Joe (Read by) |
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ISBN: 1482971836 ISBN-13: 9781482971835 Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks OUR PRICE: $94.50 Product Type: Compact Disc - Other Formats Published: January 2014 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | United States - 20th Century - History | United States - State & Local - Middle Atlantic (dc, De, Md, Nj, Ny, Pa) - Technology & Engineering | History |
| Dewey: 607.347 |
| Physical Information: 1.3" H x 6.5" W x 6.1" (0.80 lbs) |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1960's - Locality - New York, N.Y. - Geographic Orientation - New York |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 Pieta 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Tirella, Joseph: - Joseph Tirella wrote about the borough of Queens for the New York Times' much-missed City section and penned pieces for the paper's Metro and Business sections. A former senior editor at Fortune Small Business, his work has also appeared in Rolling Stone, Esquire, the New York Post, and MSN.com. Barrett, Joe: -Joe Barrett, an actor and Audie Award and Earphones Award-winning narrator, has appeared both on and off Broadway as well as in hundreds of radio and television commercials. |