Tomorrow-land the 1964-65 World's Fair and the transformation of America
(Audiobook CD)
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Published
[Ashland, Oregon] : Blackstone Audio, Inc., [2014].
Status
New City Library - Adult Book on CD
BCD 974.7243 TIREL
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BCD 974.7243 TIREL
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New City Library - Adult Book on CD | BCD 974.7243 TIREL | On Shelf |
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Subjects
LC Subjects
New York World's Fair -- (1964-1965 : -- New York, N.Y.) -- History.
Political culture -- History -- 20th century.
Social change -- History -- 20th century.
Technological innovations -- History -- 20th century.
United States -- Politics and government -- 20th century.
United States -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
United States -- Social life and customs -- 20th century.
Political culture -- History -- 20th century.
Social change -- History -- 20th century.
Technological innovations -- History -- 20th century.
United States -- Politics and government -- 20th century.
United States -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
United States -- Social life and customs -- 20th century.
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Published
[Ashland, Oregon] : Blackstone Audio, Inc., [2014].
Format
Audiobook CD
Physical Desc
10 compact discs (approximately 12 1/2 hr.) : digital, CD audio ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 CD-ROM (4 3/4 in.)
Language
English
UPC
9781482971859
Notes
General Note
"Includes bonus PDF disc with notes from the book"--Container.
Participants/Performers
Read by Joe Barrett.
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 Piet, 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.
System Details
System requirements for accompanying CD-ROM: PC with Adobe Acrobat or other PDF reader.
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Citations
APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Tirella, J. (2014). Tomorrow-land: the 1964-65 World's Fair and the transformation of America . Blackstone Audio, Inc..
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Tirella, Joseph. 2014. Tomorrow-land: The 1964-65 World's Fair and the Transformation of America. Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Tirella, Joseph. Tomorrow-land: The 1964-65 World's Fair and the Transformation of America Blackstone Audio, Inc, 2014.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Tirella, Joseph. Tomorrow-land: The 1964-65 World's Fair and the Transformation of America Blackstone Audio, Inc., 2014.
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