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Compact book on the history of American world's fairs. The text is an introduction to the topic, as it synthesizes other books on the subject and doesn't have a lot of biographical information about the major personalities behind these fairs. The authors say in the prologue that they want to study the fairs as expressions of America's political economy and as attempts at promoting national union. There's less economic content as the book progresses, which is a drawback, but the discussions of racism and gender make for compelling material. The discussions of African American civil rights protests at world's fairs ' acts of disunion, in the eyes of the fairs' white organizers ' are particularly interesting. The epilogue focuses mainly on the themes of technology and utopianism that world's fairs have promoted. After not discussing political economy for some time, the authors suddenly bring that topic back for the epilogue. The world's fairs were invented to promote capitalism, but given the troubles industry has caused for the environment, future celebrations of progress might not want to dwell on capitalism. Overall, the book is a good start to understanding American world's fairs, but the authors seem confused about what topics they want to highlight.