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Title: The End of the Innocence
Subtitle: The 1964-1965 New York World's Fair
Author: Lawrence R. Samuel
Narrator: Richard Teimer
Format: Unabridged
Length: 10 hrs and 18 mins
Language: English
Release date: 12-02-14
Publisher: University Press Audiobooks
Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 12 votes
Genres: History, American
Publisher's Summary:
From April 1964 to October 1965, some 52 million people from around the world flocked to the New York World's Fair, an experience that lives on in the memory of many individuals and in America's collective consciousness. Taking a perceptive look back at "the last of the great world's fairs," Lawrence R. Samuel offers a thought-provoking portrait of this seminal event and of the cultural climate that surrounded it. Samuel counters critics' assessments of the fair as the "ugly duckling" of global expositions. Opening five months after President Kennedy's assassination, the fair allowed millions to celebrate international brotherhood while the conflict in Vietnam came to a boil. Samuel's work charts the birth of the fair from inception in 1959 to demolition in 1966 and provides a broad overview of the social and cultural dynamics that led to the birth of the event. The book is published by Syracuse University Press.
Critic Reviews:
"An overdue and well-deserved encomium to a largely denigrated chapter in [New York] city's history." (The New York Times)