1939: Lost World of Fair

David Gelernter

418 pages, Paperback

ISBN: 038072748X

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Language: English

Publish: 830934000000

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Yesterday’s World of Tomorrow.
In a narrow corridor of time between the Great Depression and the most destructive war in history, a World’s Fair was held in the city of New York. It was an event that transformed an entire generation with its vision of things to come. Millions of people came from every corner of the globe to gaze in awe at the Trylon and Perisphere, and to experience for an afternoon a thrilling yet humane utopia in which every citizen lived “the good life” that art, science, technology, and moral fervor had created. In 1939, David Gelernter gives us an intensely evocative picture of the World’s Fair — and of a fleeting era of innocent expectation when the world looked forward in wonder rather than backward with regret.

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