Inventing modern : growing up with x-rays, skyscrapers, and tailfins /

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, skyscraper...

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Main Author: Lienhard, John H., 1930-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, 2003
Series:OUP E-Books
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