{"product_id":"9781493003334","title":"Tomorrow-Land: The 1964-65 World's Fair and the Transformation of America","description":"\u003cp\u003eMotivated by potentially 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 flashpoint in areas from politics to pop culture, technology to urban planning, and civil rights to violent crime.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn an epic narrative, the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestseller \u003ci\u003eTomorrow-Land \u003c\/i\u003eshows the astonishing pivots taken by New York City, America, \u003ci\u003eand \u003c\/i\u003ethe world during the Fair. It fetched Disney's empire from California and Michelangelo's \u003ci\u003eLa Pieta\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eright there in Queens\u003c\/i\u003e. 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWorld'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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rowman \u0026 Littlefield Publishers, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47126853320944,"sku":"9781493003334","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781493003334_p0.jpg?v=1769894918","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781493003334","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}