{"product_id":"world-of-fairs-the-centuryofprogress-expositions","title":"World of Fairs: The Century-of-Progress Expositions","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn the depths of the Great Depression  when Americas future seemed bleak  nearly one hundred million people visited expositions celebrating the \"century of progress.\" These fairs fired the national imagination and served as cultural icons on which Americans fixed their hopes for prosperity and power.  World of Fairs continues Robert W. Rydells unique cultural historybegun in his acclaimed All the Worlds a Fairthis time focusing on the interwar exhibitions. He shows how the ideas of a fewparticularly artists  architects  and scientistswere broadcast to millions  proclaiming the arrival of modern Americaa new empire of abundance build on old foundations of inequality.  Rydell revisits several fairs  highlighting the 1926 Philadelphia Sesquicentennial  the 1931 Paris Colonial Exposition  the 1933-34 Chicago Century of Progress Exposition  the 1935-36 San Diego California Pacific Exposition  the 1936 Dallas Texas Centennial Exposition  the 1937 Cleveland Great Lakes and International Exposition  the 1939-40 San Francisco Golden Gate International Exposition  the 1939-40 New York Worlds Fair  and the 1958 Brussels Universal Exposition.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44985357467701,"sku":"ByrdShop_0226732371","price":27.29,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780226732374.jpg?v=1770855805","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/world-of-fairs-the-centuryofprogress-expositions","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}