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Spring Forward: The Annual Madness of Daylight Saving Time by Michael Downing (Hardcover, 2005)

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Michael Downing is obsessed with Daylight Saving, the loopy idea that became the most persistent political controversy in American history. Almost one hundred years after Congressmen and lawmakers in every state first debated, ridiculed, and then passionately embraced the possibility of saving an hour of daylight, no one can say for sure why we are required by law to change our clocks twice a year. Who first proposed the scheme? The most authoritative sources agree it was a Pittsburgh industrialist, Woodrow Wilson, a man on a horse in London, a Manhattan socialite, Benjamin Franklin, one of the Caesars, or the anonymous makers of ancient Chinese and Japanese water clocks. Spring Forward is a portrait of public policy in the 20th century, a perennially boiling cauldron of unsubstantiated science, profiteering masked as piety, and mysteriously shifting time-zone boundaries. It is a true-to-life social comedy with Congress in the leading role, surrounded by a supporting cast of opportunistic ministers, movie moguls, stockbrokers, labor leaders, sports fanatics, and railroad execs.

Product Identifiers

Publisher
Counterpoint
ISBN-13
9781593760533
eBay Product ID (ePID)
94890300

Product Key Features

Author
Michael Downing
Publication Name
Spring Forward: the Annual Madness of Daylight Saving Time
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Subject
Government
Publication Year
2005
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
192 Pages

Dimensions

Item Height
228mm
Item Width
152mm

Additional Product Features

Title_Author
Michael Downing
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States

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