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Spring Forward
Michael Downing
其他書名
The Annual Madness of Daylight Saving Time
出版Catapult, 2009-02-17
主題Political Science / Political Ideologies / Fascism & TotalitarianismBiography & Autobiography / PoliticalHistory / Russia / General
ISBN15824349569781582434957
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=aIhLEAAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋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.