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Motivated by potentially turning Flushing Meadows, literally a land of refuse, into his greatest public park, Robert Moses--New York's & quot;Master Builder & quot;--brought the World & rsquo;s Fair to the Big Apple for 1964 and & rsquo;65. Though considered a financial failure, the 1964-65 World & rsquo;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, Tomorrow-Land shows the astonishing pivots taken by New York City, America, and the world during the Fair. It fetched Disney & rsquo;s empire from California and Michelangelo & rsquo;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

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Author

Tirella, Joseph

Publisher

Lyons Press, an imprint of Globe Pequot Press

Published

2014

Language

EN

ISBN

9781493003327

Category

history

Subjects

History, Political Science, Humanities

Rating

3.71 / 5 (221 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14