Clevenger makes the reader feel like they are sitting at the Fair right next to the four Fair visitors she examines. This book is more than an easy reading novel, however. Clevenger sets the Fair into a larger social and political context and shows the reader how the 1904 World's Fair had concrete repercussions on the worldviews of its visitors. The novel format and use of diaries from the Fair are merely more effective ways to interest the reader in the history and adventure of the Fair.