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1959 : The Year Everything Changed by Fred M. Kaplan is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
What is 1959 : The Year Everything Changed about?
**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-r
Who reads 1959 : The Year Everything Changed?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Fred M. Kaplan
- Publisher
- Wiley ; John Wiley [distributor
- Published
- 2009
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780470730263
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- History, American Studies, Humanities
- Rating
- 3.63 / 5 (402 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
