Tag Archives: Elizabeth L. Eisenstein

“what’s new?”

“What’s New?” we ask each other ritually, and there is generally a ready answer at hand. Journalism, with its vested interest in change, has become enormously more pervasive and influential, first from television, and then the internet, ans perhaps this … Continue reading

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1939: rays and wrath

What was America really like in 1939? Well the experts behind the New York World’s Fair of 1939 with its theme of “the world of tomorrow” thought they knew, and could also predict the future. America was on the threshold … Continue reading

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1939: better Ma Perkins

In 1939 the United States was on the threshold of a new era, but all the experts were prisoners to the Great Depression just behind and blind to the coming implications of World War II… Among books the great political … Continue reading

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1939: few twinges of guilt

What was America like in 1939? In a way caught between the bark and the tree with the Depression still a traumatic memory and a World War on the horizon. The United States was on the threshold of a new … Continue reading

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1939: doubts about perpetual progress

America in 1939. Cracks in the facade of manifest destiny and the Promised Land… …In 1939 Italian hand organs were still heard in the streets of American cities, and Yiddish language movies were still made and shown. The cities and … Continue reading

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1939: ole times sake

America in 1939, stuck between the rear-view mirror of the Great Depression and the impending war. Idyllic times? The good ole’ days? The New York World’s Fair of 1939 had as its theme “the world of tomorrow,” one based on … Continue reading

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