Bibliograph

1959, the year everything changed, Fred Kaplan

Type

Label

1959, the year everything changed, Fred Kaplan

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Illustrations

illustrationsplates

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

1959

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

276138070

Responsibility statement

Fred Kaplan

Sub title

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. During this vital, overlooked period in American history, pop culture exploded, court rulings unshackled prevously banned books, civil rights laws and protests broadened political power, the birth control pill ushered in the sexual and feminist revolutions, America entered the war in Vietnam, the invention of the microchip launched the computer age, and the space race put a new twist on the frontier myth

resource.variantTitle

Nineteen fifty nine

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