Survival City: Adventures among the Ruins of Atomic America - Brossura

Vanderbilt, Tom

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ISBN 10: 0226846946 ISBN 13: 9780226846941

Casa editrice: University of Chicago Press, 2010

Riassunto

On the road to Survival City, Tom Vanderbilt maps the visible and invisible legacies of the cold war, exhuming the blueprints for the apocalypse we once envisioned and chronicling a time when we all lived at ground zero. In this road trip among ruined missile silos, atomic storage bunkers, and secret test sites, a lost battleground emerges amid the architecture of the 1950s, accompanied by Walter Cotten’s stunning photographs. Survival City looks deep into the national soul, unearthing the dreams and fears that drove us during the latter half of the twentieth century.

“A crucial and dazzling book, masterful, and for me at least, intoxicating.”—Dave Eggers

“A genuinely engaging book, perhaps because [Vanderbilt] is skillful at conveying his own sense of engagement to the reader.”—Los Angeles Times

“A retracing of Dr. Strangelove as ordinary life.”—Greil Marcus, Bookforum

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Tom Vanderbilt is the New York Times best-selling author of Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What It Says About Us).His work on design, technology, science, and culture has appeared in The New York Times Magazine,The Nation, theLondon Review of Books, The Wall Street Journal, and others.

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Su questa edizione

• Editore: University of Chicago Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0226846946
• ISBN 13: 9780226846941
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 234