Buffalo's Pan-American Exposition (Images of America)

By Thomas E., and Sholes, Elizabeth C. Leary, Elizabeth Leary, Thomas And Sholes, Thomas Leary and Elizabeth Sholes

Book Overview

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0752409816
• ISBN13: 9780752409818
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.3" x 0.5" x 6.5"

Customer Reviews

A gem!

This is not only one of the best of the Images of America series, it is itself a small gem. It compresses information about both the Pan-Am and turn-of-the-century US history into very few words coupled with superb pictures. With incredible economy, the authors lead us through a rapidly changing American landscape of social mores, values, and politics in which the Pan-Am is played out as a representative image of all that is good and bad in the country. I learned so much about women, minorities, the rise of a consumer society, colonialism, class and power, architecture, and engineering - and just plain fun as it was known in a world before TV. What a great introduction to the modern era in US history! Wow!