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Ephemeral City: A People's History of Chicago's Century of Progress World's Fair

Ephemeral City: A People's History of Chicago's Century of Progress World's Fair - Hardcover

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Availability:Out of StockContributor:Lindsay FullertonPublish date:2025-04-29Pages:328
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Illinois PressISBN-13:9780252046438ISBN-10:252046439UPC:9780252046438Book Category:History, Social Science, TravelBook Subcategory:United States, Cultural & Ethnic Studies, Museums, Tours, Points of InterestBook Topic:State & LocalWeight:1.0009Product ID:SCMR3DKEFA

Less celebrated than the 1893 Chicago World's Fair, the 1933-1934 Century of Progress Exposition brought visitors face-to-face with gleaming American consumerism in the midst of the Great Depression. Lindsay Fullerton draws on a wealth of personal photographs, scrapbooks, oral histories, and writings to illuminate the wildly different experiences of fairgoers against the backdrop of a city steeped in poverty and segregation.

The Exposition took place amidst massive changes sparked by expansion of mass media, Franklin Roosevelt's election, the repeal of Prohibition, and the Great Migration. A diverse cross-section of Chicagoans informs Fullerton's history of the event in the context of the fast-changing America of the interwar era. These personal accounts tell stories of how attendees interpreted their own experiences while being surrounded by whiz-bang products and full-throated evangelism on the benefits of progress.

A colorful people's history, Ephemeral City takes readers inside the other Chicago World's Fair and how visitors interacted with a pivotal moment in American history.

Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Illinois PressISBN-13:9780252046438ISBN-10:252046439UPC:9780252046438Book Category:History, Social Science, TravelBook Subcategory:United States, Cultural & Ethnic Studies, Museums, Tours, Points of InterestBook Topic:State & LocalWeight:1.0009Product ID:SCMR3DKEFA
Lindsay Fullerton is an historian and media studies scholar. She grew up in Chicagoland and holds a doctorate from the Northwestern University School of Communication.
Publisher: University of Illinois Press

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