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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.
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Joseph Tirella is a writer and editor whose work has appeared in The New York Times, Rolling Stone, Vibe, Esquire, People, Reader's Digest, the New York Post, the Daily News, Portfolio.com, MSN.com and Fortune Small Business.
