1959: The Year Everything Changed Contributor(s): Kaplan, Fred (Author) |
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ISBN: 0470387815 ISBN-13: 9780470387818 Publisher: Trade Paper Press
WE WILL NOT BE UNDERSOLD! Click here for our low price guarantee Binding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & Editions Published: June 2009 Annotation: An acclaimed national security columnist and noted cultural critic draws fascinating parallels between the country in 1959 and today, exactly 50 years later, and offers a smart, cogent, and deeply researched new take on a vital, overlooked period in American history. |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - History | United States - 20th Century - History | Modern - 20th Century |
Dewey: 909.825 |
LCCN: 2008045529 |
Physical Information: 1.16" H x 6.38" W x 9.46" L (1.28 lbs) 344 pages |
Themes: - Chronological Period - 1950's - Chronological Period - 20th Century |
Features: Bibliography, Dust Cover, Illustrated, Index, Price on Product, Price on Product - Canadian, Table of Contents |
Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 05/04/2009 pg. 43 BookPage 07/01/2009 |
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Publisher Description: Acclaimed national security columnist and noted cultural critic Fred Kaplan looks past the 1960s to the year that really changed America While conventional accounts focus on the sixties as the era of pivotal change that swept the nation, Fred Kaplan argues that it was 1959 that ushered in the wave of tremendous cultural, political, and scientific shifts that would play out in the decades that followed. Pop culture exploded in upheaval with the rise of artists like Jasper Johns, Norman Mailer, Allen Ginsberg, and Miles Davis. Court rulings unshackled previously banned books. Political power broadened with the onset of Civil Rights laws and protests. The sexual and feminist revolutions took their first steps with the birth control pill. America entered the war in Vietnam, and a new style in superpower diplomacy took hold. The invention of the microchip and the Space Race put a new twist on the frontier myth.
Drawing fascinating parallels between the country in 1959 and today, Kaplan offers a smart, cogent, and deeply researched take on a vital, overlooked period in American history. |
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