For two weeks in the fall of 1909, New York City threw itself the biggest party it had ever seen?attracting millions of people to a sprawling festival 150 miles long, from Brooklyn up the Hudson River to Albany.This extraordinary event, the Hudson-Fulton Celebration, was officially meant to commemorate the 300th anniversary of Henry Hudson?s discovery of the river bearing his name and the centennial of Robert Fulton?s first successful run of his steamship Clermont. But in an era of grand world?s fairs, the Celebration was really created to showcase New York?s coming of age as a world metropolis. On city sidewalks and along the river, millions enjoyed a nonstop circus of fireworks, concerts, museum exhibitions, children?s festivals, and military and naval parades, each designed to link past glories to present challenges and future progress. And to show the world that its biggest city worked.For city leaders, the Celebration was to be a gaudy catalyst for change?technological,...

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