World War II and the American Dream: How Wartime Building Changed a Nation
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ISBN: 0262510839 / Publisher: The MIT Press, April 1995
Donald Albrecht is Guest Curator of the exhibition "World War II and the American Dream" at the National Building Museum.
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Among the legacies of World War II was a massive building program on a scale that America had not seen before and has not seen since. The war effort created thousands of factories, homes, even entire cities throughout the country. Many of these structures still stand, the physical evidence of an unprecedented ability to harness the power and resources of a people. The complex legacy of this notable period in our nation's history is discussed from a different perspective by each contributor.
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