Broken Icarus: The 1933 Chicago World's Fair, the Golden Age of Aviation, and the Rise of Fascism

by David Hanna

Book Overview

2022 History Book Festival Official Selection. The 1930s still conjure painful images: the great want of the Depression, and overseas, the exuberant crowds motivated by self-appointed national saviors dressing up old hatreds as new ideas. But there was another story that embodied mankind in that decade. In the same year that both Adolf Hitler and Franklin D. Roosevelt came to power, the city of Chicago staged what was, up to that time, the most forward-looking...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 163388676X
• ISBN13: 9781633886766
• Release Date: June 2022
• Publisher: Prometheus Books
• Length: 250 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.3" x 9.3"