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1959, the year everything changed, Fred Kaplan

eng

Includes bibliographical references and index

index present

non fiction

1959

bibliography

Fred Kaplan

the year everything changed

Summary "Conventional historical wisdom focuses on the sixties as the era of pivotal change that swept the nation, yet, as Fred Kaplan argues, it was 1959 that ushered in the wave of tremendous cultural, political, and scientific shifts that would play out in the turbulent decade 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 revolutionists 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 launched the computer age, and the space race put a new twist on the frontier myth. Drawing fascinating parallels between 1959 and the country today, exactly 50 years later, Kaplan offers a smart, cogent, and deeply researched new take on a vital, overlooked period in American history."--Publisher description

Timeline -- 1. Breaking the Chains -- 2. A Visitor from the East -- 3. The Philosopher of Hip -- 4. Generations Howling -- 5. The Cosmonaut of Inner Space -- 6. The End of Obscenity -- 7. Sickniks -- 8. Thinking about the Unthinkable -- 9. The Race for Space -- 10. Toppling the Tyranny of Numbers -- 11. The Assault on the Chord -- 12. Revolutionary Euphoria -- 13. Breaking the Logjam, Hitting the Wall -- 14. The Frontier's Dark Side -- 15. The New Language of Diplomacy -- 16. Sparking the Powder Keg -- 17. Civilizations in the Stars -- 18. A Great Upward Swoop of Movement -- 19. Blurring Art and Life -- 20. Seeing the Invisible -- 21. The Off-Hollywood Movie -- 22. The Shape of Jazz to Come -- 23. Dancing in the Streets -- 24. Andromeda Freed from Her Chains -- 25. New Frontiers

Nineteen fifty nineYear everything changed