1959: The Year Everything Changed

Advance Praise for Fred Kaplan's 1959: The Year Everything Changed

"An engrossing story about not just where the '60s came from but the birth of the future. Kaplan does a masterful job of weaving together the strands - in politics, society, culture, and sciencethat have brought us to the postmodern age."
?Jonathan Alter, author of The Defining Moment: FDR's Hundred Days and the Triumph of Hope

"It turns out there's only one degree of separation between Miles Davis, the brilliant jazz innovator, and Herman Kahn, the Strangelovian nuclear-war theorist?and his name is Fred Kaplan. No one else could throw this fabulous cocktail party of a popular history, teeming with defiant hipsters, visionary inventors, artistic rulebreakers, and troublemakers of all kinds."
?Hendrik Hertzberg, Senior Editor, the New Yorker

"1959 is a riveting account of the year our modern age began. Everything did change, and you'll be amazed by how much was going on, and how much it has affected the way you live your life now."
?Kevin Baker, author of Strivers Row, Dreamland, and Paradise Alley

"Take a ride on the New Frontier with Fred Kaplan, your insightful (and hip) guide to the space race, thermonuclear war, the civil rights movement, the 'sick comics,' the Beats, and the beginnings of the Vietnam War, all to a soundtrack by Dave Brubeck, Ornette Coleman, Miles, and Motown."
?Donald Fagen, cofounder, Steely Dan more

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4/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Jul-27-2009; 1959 Was a Good Year to Make a Change...a Very Big Change; 1959 is certainly a worthy subject for a book, but I have to admit a bias...that was the year I was born. However, I will not lay claim to Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Fred Kaplan's subtitle, "The Year Everything Changed". He does a...; read full review | report as inappropriate

2/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Jul-27-2009; Not Totally Accurate; I saw this author on CSPAN2 BookTV this afternoon. I only heard a small part of his talk but I heard enough to know he does not have all his facts straight.He said Motown was founded in 1959. I'm not disputing that. He went on to say...; read full review | report as inappropriate

5/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Jul-26-2009; Fun fun book!!!; This is a fun read. From the Soviet's succeeding first in the space race, to the founding of Motown out of Detroit, Lenny Bruce and his testing of censorship laws, the Boeing 707, The FDA with less than a dozen people getting the birth...; read full review | report as inappropriate

4/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Jun-29-2009; Castro, Errol Flynn and me in 1959; I enjoyed this book though I admit a lot of that was because I was born in 1959 -- fifty years ago now -- and would love to believe that 1959 was a "pivotal" year but despite my longing Mr. Kapan does not really convince that just...; read full review | report as inappropriate

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4/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Jul-27-2009; 1959 Was a Good Year to Make a Change...a Very Big Change; 1959 is certainly a worthy subject for a book, but I have to admit a bias...that was the year I was born. However, I will not lay claim to Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Fred Kaplan's subtitle, "The Year Everything Changed". He does a...; read full review | report as inappropriate

2/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Jul-27-2009; Not Totally Accurate; I saw this author on CSPAN2 BookTV this afternoon. I only heard a small part of his talk but I heard enough to know he does not have all his facts straight.He said Motown was founded in 1959. I'm not disputing that. He went on to say...; read full review | report as inappropriate