On the road to Survival City; 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. Survival City looks deep into the national soul; unearthing the dreams and fears that drove us during the latter half of the twentieth century.“A crucial and dazzling book; masterful; and for me at least; intoxicating.â€â€”Dave Eggers“A genuinely engaging book; perhaps because [Vanderbilt] is skillful at conveying his own sense of engagement to the reader.â€â€”Los Angeles Times“A retracing of Dr. Strangelove as ordinary life.â€â€”Greil Marcus; Bookforum
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