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This review is from: World War II and the American Dream: How Wartime Building Changed a Nation (Paperback)
This is text-and-photo book covers an essential period that is little understood nowadays: how the United States was turned into a war machine. One only wishes that it was longer, especially since there is plenty of white space. Readers will learn not only more about the homefront in 1941-1945 but also the postwar period. But pinning the book to "the American Dream" is a marketing stretch. The people were either too busy or needed to put the dream on hold, but after the Depression years the energizing of an entire nation at least made millions believe that "the American Dream" would be possible.
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brilliant research and documentation--a design necessity,
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This review is from: World War II and the American Dream: How Wartime Building Changed a Nation (Paperback)
Albrecht is a master historian and curator. I have never seen a more thorough or loving chronology of the various experimental building technologies that flourished directly after WWII.This is essential reading for architects, industrial designers and the general public looking for ways to make sense of the built environment after the war.
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World War II and the American Dream: How Wartime Building Changed a Nation by National Building Museum (Paperback - April 18, 1995)
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