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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. Dave Eggers A genuinely engaging book, perhaps because [Vanderbilt] is skillful at conveying his own sense of engagement to the reader. Los Angeles Ti mes A retracing of Dr. Strangelove as ordinary life. Greil Marcus, Bookforum

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