The Fair
- Part 5 is called "Epilogue: The Crossing."
- Let's recap: the fair has a powerful and lasting impact on the nation.
- Walt Disney's Magic Kingdom is a descendant (his father Elias worked on the White City) and L. Frank Baum models the Emerald City of Oz after it.
- Inventions like Shredded Wheat cereal, zippers, and light bulbs take off.
- Even Washington D.C.'s Lincoln Memorial can trace its architectural heritage to the fair.
- "The fair's greatest impact lay in how it changed the way Americans perceived their cities and their architects" (5.1.2).
- Burnham revels in his accomplishments, becoming the greatest architect in America.
- He receives honorary degrees from Harvard and Yale, and goes on to complete other national works.
- But he's getting older and by 1909 thinks that his time is coming to an end.