Eiffel's Tower for Young People (For Young People Series)
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.
Praise for Eiffel's Tower for Young People (For Young People Series)
"Fascinating. . . Stuffed with information, drama and story, it will definitely appeal to young adults and yet be accessible to most secondary school pupils. The only difficulty will be prising it out of the hands of any nearby grown-ups." - Linda Lawlor, The Bookbag (UK)
Praise for Eiffel's Tower (adult edition): "In splendid detail, Jonnes examines the importance of the tower in its own historical moment." -The New York Times Book Review (Editors' Choice)
"With flair and marvelously descriptive, 'you-are-there' prose, Jonnes gives Eiffel's Tower the immediacy that only a talented writer can bestow on history." -Jay Strafford, Richmond Times-Dispatch
"Jonnes re-creates deliciously the Belle Epoque." -Milwaukee Journal Sentinel