Fred Kaplan

1959: The Year Everything Changed (2009)

The premise of this book is that all the changes for the 1960s were teed up in 1959. (I guess they're playing off the whole 1491 idea?) It's interesting when he's talking about changes in science, world affairs, politics, racial strife, etc. He spends waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay too much ti...