1959: The Year Everything Changed by Kaplan, Fred
1959: The Year Everything Changed by Kaplan, Fred

1959: The Year Everything Changed

Acclaimed national security columnist and noted cultural critic Fred Kaplan looks past the 1960s to the year...
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1959: The Year Everything Changed by Kaplan, Fred

1959: The Year Everything Changed

$67.93
1959: The Year Everything Changed by Kaplan, Fred

1959: The Year Everything Changed

$67.93
Author: Fred Kaplan
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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.

  • 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.

Author: Fred Kaplan
Publisher: Wiley
Published: 06/01/2009
Pages: 344
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.28lbs
Size: 9.46h x 6.38w x 1.16d
ISBN: 9780470387818


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 05/04/2009 pg. 43
BookPage 07/01/2009

About the Author
Fred Kaplan writes the "War Stories" column in Slate, contributes frequently to the "New York Times'" Arts & Leisure section, and blogs about jazz for "Stereophile." A Pulitzer Prize winning former "Boston Globe" reporter who covered the Pentagon and post-Soviet Moscow, he has also written for the "New Yorker," "New York," the "Atlantic," the "Washington Post," and other publications. He is the author of "Daydream Believers: How a Few Grand Ideas Wrecked American Power," also available from Wiley. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife, Brooke Gladstone.
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