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1959

By Fred Kaplan

1959 Politics & History

1959

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Advance Praise for Fred Kaplan's "1959: The Year Everything Changed" "An engrossing story about not just where the '60s came from but the birth of the future. Kaplan does a masterful job of weaving together the strands - in politics, society, culture, and science -- that have brought us to the postmodern age." --Jonathan Alter, author of "The Defining Moment: FDR's Hundred Days and the Triumph of Hope" "It turns out there's only one degree of separation between Miles Davis, the brilliant jazz innovator, and Herman Kahn, the Strangelovian nuclear-war theorist--and his name is Fred Kaplan. No one else could throw this fabulous cocktail party of a popular history, teeming with defiant hipsters, visionary inventors, artistic rulebreakers, and troublemakers of all kinds." --Hendrik Hertzberg, Senior Editor, the "New Yorker" ""1959" is a riveting account of the year our modern age began. Everything did change, and you'll be amazed by how much was going on, and how much it has affected the way you live your life now." --Kevin Baker, author of "Strivers Row, Dreamland, and Paradise Alley" "Take a ride on the New Frontier with Fred Kaplan, your insightful (and hip) guide to the space race, thermonuclear war, the civil rights movement, the 'sick comics, ' the Beats, and the beginnings of the Vietnam War, all to a soundtrack by Dave Brubeck, Ornette Coleman, Miles, and Motown." --Donald Fagen, cofounder, Steely Dan
Product details
Edition:
illustrated
Number of Pages:
344
Release Date:
2009-06-15
Publication Date:
2009-06-01
Publisher:
Turner Publishing Company
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0470387815
ISBN13:
9780470387818
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
590 g
Height:
166 cm
Width:
245 cm
Thickness:
33 cm

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