1959 Journalist Fred Kaplan provides a new historical turning point, arguing that the Sixties actually began in the last year of the much maligned Fifties in his book 1959: THE YEAR THAT CHANGED EVERYTHING. The year marked the breakthroughs of major innovative artists like Miles Davis and Allen Ginsberg, civil rights began to gain momentum, "the pill" came into use for contraception, the war in Vietnam and the Space Race heated up, and the microchip jumpstarted the age of computers. Unlike many multidisciplinary histories that focus on decades, this book frees us from that mindset and reminds us that monumental shifts can start as tremors--in any year.
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1959 Journalist Fred Kaplan provides a new historical turning point, arguing that the Sixties actually began in the last year of the much maligned Fifties in his book 1959: THE YEAR THAT CHANGED EVERYTHING. The year marked the breakthroughs of major innovative artists like Miles Davis and Allen Ginsberg, civil rights began to gain momentum, "the pill" came into use for contraception, the war in Vietnam and the Space Race heated up, and the microchip jumpstarted the age of computers. Unlike many multidisciplinary histories that focus on decades, this book frees us from that mindset and reminds us that monumental shifts can start as tremors--in any year.
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