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Inventing Modern: Growing up with X-Rays, Skyscrapers, and Tailfins
Inventing Modern Growing up with XRays Skyscrapers and Tailfins
Author: John H. Lienhard IV
Modern is a word much used, but hard to pin down. In Inventing Modern, John H. Lienhard uses that word to capture the furious rush of newness in the first half of 20th-century America. An unexpected world emerges from under the more familiar Modern. Beyond the airplanes, radios, art deco, skyscrapers, Fritz Lang's Metropolis, Buck Rogers, the ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780195160321
ISBN-10: 0195160320
Publication Date: 9/18/2003
Pages: 292
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Publisher: Oxford University Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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