Description: Eiffel's Tower for Young People is a vivid, lively pageant of people and cultures meeting—and competing—on the world stage at the dawn of the modern era.
The 1889 World's Fair was a worldwide event showcasing the cutting-edge cultural and technological accomplishments of the world's most powerful nations on the verge of a new century. France, with its long history of sophistication and cultivation and a new republican government, presented the Eiffel Tower, the world's tallest structure, crafted from eighteen thousand pieces of wrought iron and 2.5 million rivets, as a symbol of national pride and engineering superiority. The United States, with its brash, can-do spirit, full of pride in its frontier and its ingenuity, presented the rollicking Wild West show of Buffalo Bill Cody and Annie Oakley, and the marvelous new phonograph of Thomas Edison.
With historical photos throughout, outsized personalities, squabbling artists, and a sprinkling of royalty, this dramatic history opens a window to a piece of the past that, in its passions and politics, is an unforgettable portrait of a unique moment in history.
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Narrative Type: book
Type: book
Book Title: Eiffel's Tower for Young People
Number of Pages: 360 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
Publication Year: 2019
Item Height: 1.1 in
Topic: Architecture, History / Europe, People & Places / Europe, Biography & Autobiography / Cultural Heritage
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction, Young Adult Nonfiction
Item Weight: 12.6 Oz
Item Length: 8 in
Author: Jill Jonnes
Item Width: 5.6 in
Book Series: For Young People Ser.
Format: Trade Paperback
