Inventing Modern: Growing up with X-Rays, Skyscrapers, and Tailfins (signed)

Edité par Oxford University Press, Oxford (UK) & New York, 2013

0983576017 / 9780983576013

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Oxford (UK) & New York: Oxford University Press, 2013. This copy is from the library of Eric M. Hilton (1933 - 2016), American heir, hotelier, philanthropist and Former Vice Chairman of Hilton Hotels Corporation. There are two ownership indications laid-in the book: 1) a letter from the University of Houston presenting this book to him, and 2) a copy of a rather caustic letter from Hilton's wife to a worker at the Las Vegas Hilton asking her to stop refering to the Hiltons as "close personal friends." Eric M. Hilton was the youngest son of Conrad N. Hilton for which the Conrad N. Hilton College of Global Hospitality Leadership was named. Eric M. Hilton was an inductee into the their Hall of Honor. The book is SIGNED by the AUTHOR directly on the title page (his signature only, NOT personalized to anyone). Near Fine condition in a bright and shiny Near Fine dust jacket (only a little bit of mild shelfwear). NO chips, tears, creases or fading. Square and tight. NO owner's name or bookplate. NOT a library discard. NOT a remainder. Pages are fresh, crisp, clean and unmarked. Illustrated. Bound in the original white boards with a light brown cloth spine. Complete with dust jacket. From the publisher: "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 culture of the open road--Burma Shave, Kerouac, and White Castles--lie driving forces that set this account of Modern apart. One force, says Lienhard, was a new concept of boyhood -- the risk-taking, hands-on savage inventor. Driven by an admiration of recklessness, America developed its technological empire with stunning speed. Bringing the airplane to fruition in so short a time, for example, were people such as Katherine Stinson, Lincoln Beachey, Amelia Earhart, and Charles Lindbergh. The rediscovery of mystery powerfully drove Modern as well. X-Rays, quantum mechanics, and relativity theory had followed electricity and radium. Here we read how, with reality seemingly altered, hope seemed limitless. Lienhard blends these forces with his childhood in the brave new world. The result is perceptive, engaging, and filled with surprise. Whether he talks about Alexander Calder (an engineer whose sculptures were exercises in materials science) or that wacky paean to flight, Flying Down to Rio, unexpected detail emerges from every tile of this large mosaic. Inventing Modern is a personal book that displays, rather than defines, an age that ended before most of us were born. It is an engineer's homage to a time before the bomb and our terrible loss of confidence -- a time that might yet rise again out of its own postmodern ashes.". SIGNED by the AUTHOR. First Printing of the First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine condition/Near Fine dust jacket. Illus. by NOT a library discard. 8vo. (x), 292pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.…

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Titre
Inventing Modern: Growing up with X-Rays, Skyscrapers, and Tailfins (signed)
Auteur
Lienhard, John H. (signed); Eric M. Hilton (from the library of)
Éditeur
Oxford University Press, Oxford (UK) & New York
Année de publication
2013
État de l'article
Near Fine condition
Jaquette
Near Fine dust jacket
Signé
Signé par l'auteur
Reliure
Hardcover
ISBN à 10 chiffres
0983576017
ISBN à 13 chiffres
9780983576013
Illustrateur
NOT a library discard
Édition
First Printing of the First Edition.
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