Download The End of the Innocence: The 1964-1965 New York World's Fair AudioBook Free
From Apr 1964 to October 1965, some 52 million people from about the world flocked to the New York World's Rational, an experience that lives on in the memory of several individuals and in America's collective consciousness. Taking a perceptive look again at "the previous of the fantastic world's fairs," Lawrence R. Samuel offers a thought-provoking family portrait of the seminal event and of the ethnic climate that surrounded it. Samuel counters critics' assessments of the fair as the "ugly duckling" of global expositions. Starting five a few months after President Kennedy's assassination, the fair allowed thousands and thousands to rejoice international brotherhood as the issue in Vietnam came up to a boil. Samuel's work charts the birth of the fair from inception in 1959 to demolition in 1966 and a broad overview of the sociable and ethnic dynamics that resulted in the birth of the event. The e book is released by Syracuse College or university Press.
