1959 The Year Everything Changed 1st Edition by Fred Kaplan ISBN 0470387815 9780470387818
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ISBN 10: 0470387815
ISBN 13: 9780470387818
Author: Fred Kaplan
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.
- Vividly chronicles 1959 as a vital, overlooked year that set the world as we know it in motion, spearheading immense political, scientific, and cultural change
- Strong critical acclaim: “Energetic and engaging” (Washington Post); “Immensely enjoyable . . . a first-rate book” (New Yorker); “Lively and filled with often funny anecdotes” (Publishers Weekly)
- Draws fascinating parallels between the country in 1959 and today
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.
1959 The Year Everything Changed 1st Table of contents:
Chapter 1 – Breaking the Chains
Chapter 2 – A Visitor from the East
Chapter 3 – The Philosopher of Hip
Chapter 4 – Generations Howling
Chapter 5 – The Cosmonaut of Inner Space
Chapter 6 – The End of Obscenity
Chapter 7 – Sickniks
Chapter 8 – Thinking about the Unthinkable
Chapter 9 – The Race for Space
Chapter 10 – Toppling the Tyranny of Numbers
Chapter 11 – The Assault on the Chord
Chapter 12 – Revolutionary Euphoria
Chapter 13 – Breaking the Logjam, Hitting the Wall
Chapter 14 – The Frontier’s Dark Side
Chapter 15 – The New Language of Diplomacy
Chapter 16 – Sparking the Powder Keg
Chapter 17 – Civilizations in the Stars
Chapter 18 – A Great Upward Swoop of Movement
Chapter 19 – Blurring Art and Life
Chapter 20 – Seeing the Invisible
Chapter 21 – The Off-Hollywood Movie
Chapter 22 – The Shape of Jazz to Come
Chapter 23 – Dancing in the Streets
Chapter 24 – Andromeda Freed from Her Chains
Chapter 25 – New Frontiers
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