Survival City: Adventures Among the Ruins of Atomic America
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ISBN: 0226846946 / Publisher: University of Chicago Press, April 2010
On the road to Survival City, Tom Vanderbilt maps the visible and invisi...
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<p>On the road to <i>Survival City</i>, Tom Vanderbilt maps the visible and invisible legacies of the cold war, exhuming the blueprints for the apocalypse we once envisioned and chronicling a time when we all lived at ground zero. In this road trip among ruined missile silos, atomic storage bunkers, and secret test sites, a lost battleground emerges amid the architecture of the 1950s, accompanied by Walter Cotten’s stunning photographs. <i>Survival City</i> looks deep into the national soul, unearthing the dreams and fears that drove us during the latter half of the twentieth century.<br></p><p>“A crucial and dazzling book, masterful, and for me at least, intoxicating.”—Dave Eggers</p><p><br>“A genuinely engaging book, perhaps because [Vanderbilt] is skillful at conveying his own sense of engagement to the reader.”—<i>Los Angeles Ti</i>mes</p><p><br>“A retracing of Dr. Strangelove as ordinary life.”—Greil Marcus, <i>Bookforum</i></p>
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