The End of the Innocence: The 1964-1965 New York World's Fair
by Lawrence R. Samuel
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Author: Lawrence R. SamuelEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2007-08-30
ISBN: 081560890X
Number of pages: 243
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Book Reviews of The End of the Innocence: The 1964-1965 New York World's Fair
Book Review: Well Researched
Summary: 5 Stars
The first half of the book explains the birth and idea to even think about initiating another world's fair in N.Y. Seeing at that time frame, that the 1939 N.Y. fair was only 20 years old. The second half gets into the actual fair exhibits and the trials and tribulations behind the scenes.
The best book I've read on the nuts & bolts of the 64-65 World's Fair. A wealth of facts backed up by foot notes. The author does a great job organizing this detail into a more or less chronological order that makes it enjoyable to read and understand.
Although there is a lot of trivia relating to individual exhibits, if you are looking for mechanical detail such as animatronics and stories behind the actual designers and workers of the great exhibits and what they did to make things work. This book may not be the right one. But since there is so little written on the 60's N.Y. World's Fair, This book has answered many of the questions I had about it, both trivia wise and politically.
Summary of The End of the Innocence: The 1964-1965 New York World's Fair
From April to October in 1964 and 1965, some 52 million people from around the world flocked to the New York World's Fair, an experience that lives on in the memory of many individuals and in America's collective consciousness. Lawrence R. 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 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." Much of the Fair's popularity, Samuel suggests, stemmed from its looking backward as much as forward, offering visitors sanctuary from the cultural storm that was rapidly approaching in the mid-1960s. 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.Meetings & Presentations Books
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