America The Fair

Author : Robert W. Rydell,John E. Findling,Kimberly Pelle
Publisher : Smithsonian Institution
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2013-06-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781588343420

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Fair America by Robert W. Rydell,John E. Findling,Kimberly Pelle Pdf

Since their inception with New York's Crystal Palace Exhibition in the mid-nineteenth century, world's fairs have introduced Americans to “exotic” pleasures such as belly dancing and the Ferris Wheel; pathbreaking technologies such as telephones and X rays; and futuristic architectural, landscaping, and transportation schemes. Billed by their promoters as “encyclopedias of civilization,” the expositions impressed tens of millions of fairgoers with model environments and utopian visions. Setting more than 30 world’s fairs from 1853 to 1984 in their historical context, the authors show that the expositions reflected and influenced not only the ideals but also the cultural tensions of their times. As mainstays rather than mere ornaments of American life, world’s fairs created national support for such issues as the social reunification of North and South after the Civil War, U.S. imperial expansion at the turn of the 20th-century, consumer optimism during the Great Depression, and the essential unity of humankind in a nuclear age.

Author : Dan Meegan
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2019-04-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781501735486

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America the Fair by Dan Meegan Pdf

What makes a person liberal or conservative? Why does the Democratic Party scare off so many possible supporters? When does our "injustice trigger" get pulled, and how can fairness overcome our human need to look for a zero-sum outcome to our political battles? Tapping into a pop culture zeitgeist linking Bugs Bunny, Taylor Swift, and John Belushi; through popular science and the human brain; to our political predilections, arguments, and distrusts, Daniel Meegan suggests that fairness and equality are key elements missing in today's society. Having crossed the border to take up residency in Canada, Meegan, an American citizen, has seen first-hand how people enjoy as rights what Americans view as privileges. Fascinated with this tension, he suggests that American liberals are just missing the point. If progressives want to win the vote, they need to change strategy completely and champion government benefits for everyone, not just those of lower income. If everyone has access to inexpensive quality health care, open and extensive parental leave, and free postsecondary education, then everyone will be happier and society will be fair. The Left will also overcome an argument of the Right that successfully, though incongruously, appeals to the middle- and upper-middle classes: that policies that help the economically disadvantaged are inherently bad for others. Making society fair and equal, Meegan argues, would strengthen the moral and political position of the Democratic Party and place it in a position to revive American civic life. Fairness, he writes, should be selfishly enjoyed by everyone.

Author : Joseph Tirella
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2013-12-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781493003334

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Tomorrow-Land by Joseph Tirella Pdf

Motivated 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. In an epic narrative, the New York Times bestseller Tomorrow-Land shows the astonishing pivots taken by New York City, America, and the world during the Fair. It fetched Disney's empire from California and Michelangelo'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 in and around the Fair, Harlem-based Malcolm X predicted a frightening future of inner-city racial conflict. World'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.

Author : Pamela Littky
Publisher : Kehrer Verlag
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Fairs
ISBN : 3868288201

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American Fair by Pamela Littky Pdf

The nostalgic glamor of the American fairs attracts visitors of all ages, every year in the USA.

Author : Robert W. Rydell
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2013-08-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226923253

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All the World's a Fair by Robert W. Rydell Pdf

Robert W. Rydell contends that America's early world's fairs actually served to legitimate racial exploitation at home and the creation of an empire abroad. He looks in particular to the "ethnological" displays of nonwhites—set up by showmen but endorsed by prominent anthropologists—which lent scientific credibility to popular racial attitudes and helped build public support for domestic and foreign policies. Rydell's lively and thought-provoking study draws on archival records, newspaper and magazine articles, guidebooks, popular novels, and oral histories.

Author : Bill Cotter,Bill Young
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2014-01-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781439642146

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The 1964-1965 New York World's Fair by Bill Cotter,Bill Young Pdf

Advertised as the "Billion-Dollar Fair," the 1964-1965 New York World's Fair transformed a sleepy park in the borough of Queens into a fantasy world enjoyed by more than 51 million visitors from around the world. While many countries and states exhibited at the fair, the most memorable pavilions were built by the giants of American industry. Their exhibits took guests backward and forward in time, all the while extolling how marvelous everyday life would be through the use of their products. Many of the techniques used in these shows set the standard for future fairs and theme parks, and the pavilions that housed them remain the most elaborate structures ever built for an American fair. The 1964-1965 New York World's Fair showcases the beauty of this international spectacular through rare color photographs, published here for the first time.

Author : Philip Dray
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2018-05-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781541616738

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The Fair Chase by Philip Dray Pdf

An award-winning historian tells the story of hunting in America, showing how this sport has shaped our national identity. From Daniel Boone to Teddy Roosevelt, hunting is one of America's most sacred-but also most fraught-traditions. It was promoted in the 19th century as a way to reconnect "soft" urban Americans with nature and to the legacy of the country's pathfinding heroes. Fair chase, a hunting code of ethics emphasizing fairness, rugged independence, and restraint towards wildlife, emerged as a worldview and gave birth to the conservation movement. But the sport's popularity also caused class, ethnic, and racial divisions, and stirred debate about the treatment of Native Americans and the role of hunting in preparing young men for war. This sweeping and balanced book offers a definitive account of hunting in America. It is essential reading for anyone interested in the evolution of our nation's foundational myths.

Author : Craig Boddington
Publisher : Boone and Crockett Club
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780940864474

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Fair Chase in North America by Craig Boddington Pdf

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Author : Joe Sonderman,Mike Truax
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 0738561096

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St. Louis by Joe Sonderman,Mike Truax Pdf

Contains captioned, archival photographs that trace the history of the 1904 World's Fair in St. Louis, Missouri, from the groundbreaking to the closing ceremonies.

Author : Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth
Publisher : Bethlehem Books
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 188393785X

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The Fair American by Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth Pdf

Pierre, sole survivor of an aristocratic family in the French Revolution, escapes to America aboard the Fair American with the aid of Sally, Andrew, and Andrew's father.

Author : Chaim M. Rosenberg
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 0738525219

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America at the Fair by Chaim M. Rosenberg Pdf

At the time of the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893, the United States was fast becoming the world's leading economy. Chicago, the host city, had grown in less than half a century from a village to the country's second-largest metropolis. During this, the Gilded Age, the world's most extensive railroad and steamship networks poured ceaselessly through Chicago, carrying the raw goods and finished products of America's great age of invention and industrial expansion. The Fair was the largest ever at the time, with 65,000 exhibitors and millions of visitors. It has been called the "Blueprint of the American Future" and marked the beginning of the national economy and consumer culture.

Author : Stacey Abrams
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2020-06-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781250257697

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Our Time Is Now by Stacey Abrams Pdf

From New York Times bestselling author of Lead From The Outside and political leader Stacey Abrams, a blueprint to end voter suppression, empower our citizens, and take back our country. "With each page, she inspires and empowers us to create systems that reflect a world in which all voices are heard and all people believe and feel that they matter." —Kerry Washington A recognized expert on fair voting and civic engagement, Abrams chronicles a chilling account of how the right to vote and the principle of democracy have been and continue to be under attack. Abrams would have been the first African American woman governor, but experienced these effects firsthand, despite running the most innovative race in modern politics as the Democratic nominee in Georgia. Abrams didn’t win, but she has not conceded. The book compellingly argues for the importance of robust voter protections, an elevation of identity politics, engagement in the census, and a return to moral international leadership. Our Time Is Now draws on extensive research from national organizations and renowned scholars, as well as anecdotes from her life and others’ who have fought throughout our country’s history for the power to be heard. The stakes could not be higher. Here are concrete solutions and inspiration to stand up for who we are?now. "This is a narrative that describes the urgency that compels me and millions more to push for a different American story than the one being told today. It's a story that is one part danger, one part action, and all true. It's a story about how and why we fight for our democracy and win." - Stacey Abrams

Author : Robert W. Rydell,John E. Findling,Kimberly Pelle
Publisher : Smithsonian Institution
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2000-03-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781560983842

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Fair America by Robert W. Rydell,John E. Findling,Kimberly Pelle Pdf

Since their inception with New York's Crystal Palace Exhibition in the mid-nineteenth century, world's fairs have introduced Americans to “exotic” pleasures such as belly dancing and the Ferris Wheel; pathbreaking technologies such as telephones and X rays; and futuristic architectural, landscaping, and transportation schemes. Billed by their promoters as “encyclopedias of civilization,” the expositions impressed tens of millions of fairgoers with model environments and utopian visions. Setting more than 30 world’s fairs from 1853 to 1984 in their historical context, the authors show that the expositions reflected and influenced not only the ideals but also the cultural tensions of their times. As mainstays rather than mere ornaments of American life, world’s fairs created national support for such issues as the social reunification of North and South after the Civil War, U.S. imperial expansion at the turn of the 20th-century, consumer optimism during the Great Depression, and the essential unity of humankind in a nuclear age.

Author : Cory M. Franklin
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2019-12-24
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781493053834

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America's State Fair Impresario by Cory M. Franklin Pdf

Born in poverty in 19th century New York City, Mike Barnes rose to become America’s premiere 20th century American show fair impresario, who embodied the Irving Berlin lyric, “There’s no business like show business.” For four decades, he presented dramatic spectacles worthy of Cecil B. DeMille, musical and dancing revues that rivaled anything by Busby Berkeley, animal acts, daredevil wing walkers, human cannonballs, flagpole sitters and auto demolitions. He assembled and directed these acts, entertaining millions across the United States, even during times of depression and world war. His influence on outdoor lighting and sound system presentation is still felt today in 21st century outdoor performances. Besides a snapshot of midcentury America, America’s State Fair Impresario:The Life & Times of Mike Barnes is the story of a modest man who was a brilliant showman, shrewd businessman, philanthropist, and exemplary family man. In short, a legendary American.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : PSU:000066746188

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Fair and Equitable Tax Policy for America's Working Families by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means Pdf