Tomorrow-Land: The 1964-65 World's Fair and the Transformation of America [Paperback]

A New York Times Bestseller! Tirella explores the contrast between the purported idealism of the 1964 World's Fair and the conflict and compromise that surrounded the event&. The Kennedy assassination, Vietnam, rising urban crime and racial strife provide the backdrop for Tirella's detailed history. The New York Times Book Review In an interesting and original way, Joseph Tirella has used the storied setting of the 196465 World's Fair in New York to describe the entrepreneurial spirit, the criminal nature, the egalitarian tendencies, and inevitable compromises that characterized a complex and important period in the history of the city and the nation. Gay Talese, author of The Kingdom and the Power, The Bridge, and A Writer's Life Literary lovechild of: Robert A. Caro's The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York and Erik Larson's The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America. Slate Just in time for the 50th anniversary of opening day, Joseph Tirella, in this carefully detailed account, explores the fair itself and, perhaps more important, uses that extraordinary event as a lens through which to view one of the more critical junctures in American history&. [A] a fascinating trip back to what the fair's mastermind, Robert Moses, dreamed would be the greatest single event in human history, during one of the most tumultuous periods in recent memory. The Weekly Standard As much a history of mid-Sixties America as it is a history of the World's Fair in Queens, New York, Joseph Tirella's entertaining and impeccably researched Tomorrow-Land brings the forces and players of that turbulent era crackling to life. Emily Raboteau, author of Searching for Zion: The Quest for Home in the African Diaspora With Tomorrow-Land, Joseph Tirella makes a riveting case for Queens, New York, as the origin of all that is great and modern in today's America. If you've ever wondered what Robert Moses, Andlƒ»