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The summer of 1939 was an epic turning point for America--a brief window between the Great Depression and World War II. It was the last season of unbridled hope for peace and prosperity; by Labor Day, theNazis were in Poland. And nothing would come to symbolize this transformation from acute optimism to fear and dread more than the 1939 New York World's Fair.
A glorious vision of the future, the Fair introduced television, the fax machine, nylon, and fluorescent lights. The "World of Tomorrow," as it was called, was a dream city built upon a notorious garbage dump--The GreatGatsby's infamous ash heaps. Yet these lofty dreams would come crashing down to earth in just two years. From the fair's opening on a stormy spring day, everything that could go wrong did: not justfreakish weather but power failures and bomb threats.
Amid the drama of the World's Fair, four men would struggle against the coming global violence. Albert Einstein, a lifelong pacifist, wouldcome to question his beliefs as never before. From his summer home on Long Island, he signed a series of letters to President Roosevelt urging the development of an atomic bomb--an act he would later recall as"the one great mistake in my life."
Grover Whalen, the Fair's president, struggled in vain to win over dictators Benito Mussolini and Joseph Stalin, believing that hisutopian vision had the power to stop their madness. And two New York City police detectives, Joe Lynch and Freddy Socha, who had been assigned to investigate a series of bomb threats and explosions that had terrorized thecity for months, would have a rendezvous with destiny at the Fair: During the summer of 1940, in a chilling preview of things to come, terrorism would arrive on American shores--and the grounds of theWorld's Fair.
Yet behind this tragic tableau is a story as incredible as it is inspiring. With a colorful cast of supporting characters--including Mayor Fiorello La Guardia, RobertMoses, and FDR--Twilight at the World of Tomorrow is narrative nonfiction at its finest, a gripping true-life drama that not only illuminates a forgotten episode of the nation's pastbut shines a probing light upon its present and its future. "From the Hardcover edition."