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The Hunt for International Exhibitors — 1964/1965 New York World’s Fair

Bibliography

International Participation in the New York World's Fair 1964-1965

Bibliography


Primary Resources

Magazine Articles

  • Brooks, John. "Diplomacy at Flushing Meadow." New Yorker, 1 June 1963, 40.
  • "Here is How Things Might Look Someday." Life, 1 May 1964.
  • Joe McCarthy. "Moses (Robert) and the Promised Land," Reader's Digest, September 1964.
  • "The World of Already." Time, 5 June 1964, 40.

Newspapers

  • Christian Science Monitor. 10 January 1963.
  • Daily News (New York). 4 October 1962.
  • Journal America (New York). 8 October 1962, 21 February 1965.
  • New York Mirror. 4 October 1962.
  • New York Post. 5 October 1962.
  • New York Times. 21 August 1959-17 October 1965, 5 June 1971.
  • Newsday. 8 January 1966.
  • Washington Post. 2 July 1964.

Books

  • Moses, Robert. Public Works: A Dangerous Trade. New York: McGraw Hill, 1970.
  • Nicholson, Bruce. Hi, Ho, Come to the Fair. Huntington Beach, Ca.: Pelagian Press, 1989.
  • Reid, Alistair. To Be Alive! From the Film by Frances Thompson and Alexander Hammid. New York: MacMillan Company, 1966.
  • Time-Life Books, ed. Official Guide New York World's Fair 1964/1965. New York: Time Incorporated, 1964.

Archival Collections

  • World's Fair Corporation Archives, New York World's Fair 1964-1965. Located at the New York Public Library, Special Collections, Division of Manuscripts and Archives. New York, NY.
  • Poletti Papers. Located at Columbia University, Lehman Suite. New York, NY.

Secondary Resources

Books about the 1964 Fair

  • Rosenblum, Robert, Rosemarie Haag Bletter, Morris Dickstein, Helen A. Harrison, Marc H. Miller, Sheldon J. Reaven, and Ileen Sheppard. Remembering the Future: The New York World's Fair from 1939 to 1964. New York, Rizzoli, 1989.
  • Caro, Robert A. The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York. New York: Knopf, 1974.

Books about World's Fair History

  • Benedict, Burton. "The Anthropology of World's Fairs." In The Anthropology of World's Fairs, ed. Burton Benedict, 1-65. Berkeley, California: Scholar Press, 1983.
  • Haddow, Robert H. Pavilions of Plenty: Exhibiting American Culture Abroad in the 1950s. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1997.
  • Luckhurst, Kenneth W. The Story of Exhibitions. London: Studio Publications, 1951.
  • Mattie, Erik. World's Fairs. New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 1998.
  • Rydell, Robert. All the World's a Fair: Visions of Empire at American International Expositions, 1876-1916. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1984.
  • --. "The Literature of International Expositions." In Books of the Fairs, ed. Smithsonian Institution Libraries, 1-10. Chicago: American Library Association, 1992.
  • --. World of Fairs: The Century of Progress Expositions. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1993.
  • Rydell, Robert, John E. Findling, and Kimberley D. Pelle. Fair America. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 2000.

Film

  • New York World's Fair: Memories of 1964. TV's Magic Memories. Directed by Alexander Hammid and Wheaton Galentine. 55 min. Orland Park, IL: Moviecraft, 1991. Videocassette.
  • The 1964 World's Fair: Relieve [sic] the Wonder. Produced by Connecticut Public Television. 60 minutes. Hannington Park, NJ: Janson Video, Inc., 1996. Videocassette.