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Eiffel's Tower:
And the World's Fair Where Buffalo Bill
Beguiled Paris, the Artists Quarreled,
and Thomas Edison Became a Count

 

Jill Jonnes holding Annie Oakley's rifle at the Buffalo Bill Historical Center in Cody, Wyoming, with historian Paul Fees.Photo Gallery

Jill holding Annie Oakley's rifle at the Buffalo Bill Historical Center in Cody, Wyoming, with historian Paul Fees.

Paperback of Eiffel's Tower coming April 27, 2010!

The Story of the world-famous monument and the extraordinary world’s fair that introduced it.

This history of the Eiffel Tower offers an eye-opening look not only at the construction of one of the modern world’s most iconic structures, but also the epochal event that surrounded its arrival as a wonder of the world. In this marvelously entertaining portrait of Belle Époque France, fear and loathing over Eiffel’s brash design share the spotlight with the celebrities that made the 1889 Exposition Universelle an event to remember—including Buffalo Bill and his sharpshooter Annie Oakley, Thomas Edison, and artists Whistler, Gauguin, and van Gogh.

Eiffel’s Tower is a richly textured portrait of an era at the dawn of modernity, reveling in the limitless promise of the future.

ISBN: 9780143117292
Price: $16.00
History
B&W photos throughout

 

 

 

 

2009

NPR Logo Jill Jonnes on
The Diane Rehm Show
from NPR & WAMU

"Eiffel's Tower"
Eiffel's Tower Interview: May 14, 2009

 


 

2007

NPR Logo Jill Jonnes on NPR

Tunnel to Terminus:
The Story of Penn Station

Conquering Gotham Interview: June 09, 2007

 


 

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