Remembering the Future

By Robert Rosenblum,

Book cover of Remembering the Future: New York Worlds Fair from 1939 to 1964

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Essays on two world fairs summarize their history, social, and cultural impact

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1 author picked Remembering the Future as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

At first, I was a little miffed with this book since some contributors favored New York’s first World’s Fair in 1939 over the second in 1964. But the fact is, we’ll always prefer the fair we visited when we were children over the fair we visited as an adult, and this book backs this up.

Still, it was good for me to read about the previous fair to better understand the latter fair. I’m not a New Yorker, but I soaked it up.

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