The Times of Trouble of Twilight at the World of Tomorrow

In 1934 a disagreement between a father and his young daughter led to the idea of a world’s fair that would eventually become a for profit business. However, going from the idea to the actual opening was full of drama with such strong personalities as Robert Moses, Mayor La Guardia and Grover Whalen who had been the official greeter of New York City and expanded the ticker tape parade.
Twilight at the World of Tomorrow: Genius, Madness, Murder, and the 1939 World’s Fair on the Brink of War by James Mauro is the story of this doomed extravaganza and intertwines the story of Albert Einstein’s own struggles with the threat of war as well as the two detectives that would investigate the bombing at the fair. A fascinating account of this famous world’s fair and it’s turbulent times.