The End of the Innocence: The 1964–1965 New York World’s FairSyracuse University Press, 13 aug 2010 - 243 pagina's From April 1964 to October 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. Taking a perceptive look back at “the last of the great world’s fairs,” Samuel offers a vivid portrait of this seminal event and of the cultural climate that surrounded it. He also counters critics’ assessments of the fair as the “ugly duckling” of global expositions. Opening five months after President Kennedy’s assassination, the fair allowed millions to celebrate international fellowship while the conflict in Vietnam came to a boil. This event was perhaps the last time so many from so far could gather to praise harmony while ignoring cruel realities on such a gargantuan scale. This world’s fair glorified the postwar American dream of limitless optimism even as a counterculture of sex, drugs, and rock `n` roll came into being. It could rightly be called the last gasp of that dream: The End of the Innocence. Samuel’s work charts the fair from inception in 1959 to demolition in 1966 and provides a broad overview of the social and cultural dynamics that led to the birth of the event. It also traces thematic aspects of the fair, with its focus on science, technology, and the world of the future. Accessible, entertaining, and informative, the book is richly illustrated with contemporary photographs. |
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1965 Official Guide 64 Fair African American architectural attendance Better Living Center biggest Bill Cotter building cars Century 21 Exposition chap city’s color company’s corporate critics cultural Deegan Despite Disney dollars event exhibit exhibitors Expo 58 Fair officials Fair’s fairgoers fairgrounds Federal Pavilion film Flushing Meadows Flushing Meadows Park Flushing Meadows–Corona Park Ford Futurama future global going grounds Hall of Science host included industry International Area July June Kopple Material Relating Mayor Wagner million Moses’s museum nations Newsweek NYHS offered opening day park Peace Through Understanding Photo picketing Pietà planned Poletti popular president promote Queens restaurant ride Robert Alden Robert Moses second season Sept Singer Bowl space sponsored theme tion U.S. Steel Unisphere Vatican visitors Walter Carlson wanted WFC’s White City World’s Columbian Exposition York City York fair York World’s Fair York’s Yorkers