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Charles Pappas
Charles Pappas is a senior writer at Exhibitor magazine, where he has covered the exposition industry for Exhibitor since 2002 and every world’s fair since 2010. His book, Flying Cars, Zombie Dogs, and Robot Overlords, probes how world expos and trade fairs shaped history. He was a consultant to Expo 2020 (and a regular feature of Expo 2020’s official podcast Inside Expo), speaker for the State Department in Dubai, and currently consults with the Expo 2027 effort in the US.
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One Giant Leap: Iconic and Inspiring Space Race Inventions that Shaped History (Lyons Press, 2019)
Flying Cars, Zombie Dogs, and Robot Overlords: How World’s Fairs and Trade Expos Changed the World (Lyons Press, 2017)
It’s a Bitter Little World: The Smartest, Toughest, Nastiest Quotes from Film Noir (Writer’s Digest Books, 2005)

