02988cam a2200445 i 450000100090000000300080000900500170001700600190003400700030005300800410005601000170009702000290011402000260014302000260016903500130019504000280020804100080023604200080024404300120025205000240026408200120028808400450030010000220034524501290036726400380049630000460053433600260058033600330060633700280063933800270066750400410069450508920073552005430162760000370217065000410220765000500224865000500229865000520234877601420240019361193BJBSDDR20251030172845.0a|||||r|||| 00| 0 ta161102s2017    nyua    rb    000 0beng    a  2016050576  a9781612195629 (hardback)  a1612195628 (hardback)  z9781612195551 (ebook)  a19361193  aDLCbengerdacDLCdDLC  aeng  apcc  an-us---14aNK 1412bG295S 201700a745.092  aBIO001000aHIS036060aTEC0160002bisacsh1 aSzerlip, Barbara 14aThe man who designed the future :bNorman Bel Geddes and the invention of twentieth-century America /cB. Alexandra Szerlip. 1aBrooklyn :bMelville House,c2017  axvii, 396 pages :billustrations ;c24 cm  atextbtxt2rdacontent  astill imagebsti2rdacontent  aunmediatedbn2rdamedia  avolumebnc2rdacarrier  aIncludes bibliographical references.0 aThe boy from Adrian (1893-1912)
Chicago/Detroit (1913-1916)
Hollywood (1916-1917)
Manhattan (1917-1919)
From Dante to Gershwin (1919-1922)
Prelude to a miracle (1923-1924)
Hollywood/Paris (1925)
Colossal in scale, appalling in complexity (1926-1935)
Goods into roses (1920s)
Skyscrapers/Streamlining (1931-1933)
The democratization of design (1930s)
What geniuses worry about (1930s)
Too good to succeed: the Chrysler Airflow (1933-1937)
Fickle mistress (1929-1937)
Birth of a classic, death of a beauty (January 1938)
Too goddamned Waldorf Astoria: the exhibit that nearly wasn't (1936-1940)
Crystal Lassies, or, The future will be topless (1938-1940)
Elephants in tutus (1940-1942)
"...that stinking dirty, filthy piece about me in the New Yorker" (1941)
All the wonders that would be (1940-1945)
Quantity trumps quality (1945-1950)
Prodigal daughter (1950s)
Edith (1950-1958)
Epilogue  aNorman Bel Geddes designed everything from Broadway sets to Chrysler cars; from the first all-weather stadium to Futurama, the prescient 1939 World's Fair exhibit that would go down as the most popular of all time. In The Man Who Designed the Future, B. Alexandra Szerlip tells the astonishing story of a 9th grade dropout with a Midwestern twang who presided over a seismic shift in American culture--a moment in which entertainment became immersive, people became consumers, and the country came to look the way it does today-- cEditor14aGeddes, Norman Bel, d1893-1958  0aDesignerszUnited StatesvBiography. 4aDiseñadores zEstados Unidos vBiografía  0aDesignzUnited StatesxHistoryy20th century. 4aDiseño xHistoria zEstados Unidos ySiglo XX08iOnline version:aSzerlip, Barbara, author.tMan who designed the futuredBrooklyn : Melville House, 2017z9781612195551w(DLC) 2016051081