Historian Fergus Bordewich, “Centennial"

Renowned historian Fergus Bordewich presents the spectacular story of the Great Centennial Exhibition of 1876, a world’s fair to mark America’s hundredth birthday. Held in Philadelphia, the extravaganza attracted 10 million Americans—nearly 20 percent of the population. The celebration came at a moment of reckoning for a nation barrelling toward the Gilded Age while underpaid workers waged the first national labor strike. Bordewich animates these converging crises and reveals a country striving to live up to the promise of its founders while bracing for the tidal wave of the twentieth century.
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