Fair America

Fair America
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Publisher : Smithsonian Institution
Total Pages : 177
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ISBN-10 : 9781588343420
ISBN-13 : 1588343421
Rating : 4/5 (20 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Fair America by : Robert W. Rydell

Download or read book Fair America written by Robert W. Rydell and published by Smithsonian Institution. This book was released on 2013-06-04 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since their inception with New York's Crystal Palace Exhibition in the mid-nineteenth century, world's fairs have introduced Americans to “exotic” pleasures such as belly dancing and the Ferris Wheel; pathbreaking technologies such as telephones and X rays; and futuristic architectural, landscaping, and transportation schemes. Billed by their promoters as “encyclopedias of civilization,” the expositions impressed tens of millions of fairgoers with model environments and utopian visions. Setting more than 30 world’s fairs from 1853 to 1984 in their historical context, the authors show that the expositions reflected and influenced not only the ideals but also the cultural tensions of their times. As mainstays rather than mere ornaments of American life, world’s fairs created national support for such issues as the social reunification of North and South after the Civil War, U.S. imperial expansion at the turn of the 20th-century, consumer optimism during the Great Depression, and the essential unity of humankind in a nuclear age.

Tomorrow-Land

Tomorrow-Land
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Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages : 373
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ISBN-10 : 9781493003334
ISBN-13 : 149300333X
Rating : 4/5 (34 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Tomorrow-Land by : Joseph Tirella

Download or read book Tomorrow-Land written by Joseph Tirella and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2013-12-23 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

America's State Fair Impresario

America's State Fair Impresario
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Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages : 201
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ISBN-10 : 9781493053834
ISBN-13 : 1493053833
Rating : 4/5 (34 Downloads)

Book Synopsis America's State Fair Impresario by : Cory M. Franklin

Download or read book America's State Fair Impresario written by Cory M. Franklin and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-12-24 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born in poverty in 19th century New York City, Mike Barnes rose to become America’s premiere 20th century American show fair impresario, who embodied the Irving Berlin lyric, “There’s no business like show business.” For four decades, he presented dramatic spectacles worthy of Cecil B. DeMille, musical and dancing revues that rivaled anything by Busby Berkeley, animal acts, daredevil wing walkers, human cannonballs, flagpole sitters and auto demolitions. He assembled and directed these acts, entertaining millions across the United States, even during times of depression and world war. His influence on outdoor lighting and sound system presentation is still felt today in 21st century outdoor performances. Besides a snapshot of midcentury America, America’s State Fair Impresario:The Life & Times of Mike Barnes is the story of a modest man who was a brilliant showman, shrewd businessman, philanthropist, and exemplary family man. In short, a legendary American.

America at the Fair

America at the Fair
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Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Total Pages : 292
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ISBN-10 : 0738525219
ISBN-13 : 9780738525211
Rating : 4/5 (19 Downloads)

Book Synopsis America at the Fair by : Chaim M. Rosenberg

Download or read book America at the Fair written by Chaim M. Rosenberg and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2008 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the time of the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893, the United States was fast becoming the world's leading economy. Chicago, the host city, had grown in less than half a century from a village to the country's second-largest metropolis. During this, the Gilded Age, the world's most extensive railroad and steamship networks poured ceaselessly through Chicago, carrying the raw goods and finished products of America's great age of invention and industrial expansion. The Fair was the largest ever at the time, with 65,000 exhibitors and millions of visitors. It has been called the "Blueprint of the American Future" and marked the beginning of the national economy and consumer culture.

Legislative Documents

Legislative Documents
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 854
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ISBN-10 : MINN:31951D01331823V
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Book Synopsis Legislative Documents by : Iowa. General Assembly

Download or read book Legislative Documents written by Iowa. General Assembly and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 854 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains the reports of state departments and officials for the preceding fiscal biennium.

Legislative Documents Submitted to the ... General Assembly of the State of Iowa

Legislative Documents Submitted to the ... General Assembly of the State of Iowa
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 394
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ISBN-10 : NYPL:33433004426031
ISBN-13 :
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Book Synopsis Legislative Documents Submitted to the ... General Assembly of the State of Iowa by : Iowa. General Assembly

Download or read book Legislative Documents Submitted to the ... General Assembly of the State of Iowa written by Iowa. General Assembly and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Agricultural Fairs in America

Agricultural Fairs in America
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Publisher : Michigan State University Press
Total Pages : 120
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39015049701348
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Book Synopsis Agricultural Fairs in America by : Julie A. Avery

Download or read book Agricultural Fairs in America written by Julie A. Avery and published by Michigan State University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Agricultural Fairs in America includes thirteen historical and contemporary articles exploring agricultural fairs in America. Featured throughout the book are paintings and posters from this unique collection, created in the last decades of the 19th century for promotional posters for fairs. Historic and contemporary photographs are also prominent.