Fred Kaplan

"1959: The Year Everything Changed" by Fred Kaplan

Source: Michael Ricci
July 20, 2009

The end of the 1950s was a pivotal time, a cabinet of wonders, the author contends, that overshadows every other year, including those of the '60s. When a writer needs a break these days, he picks a year -- 1968 was popular last year -- and spends a few hundred pages arguing how it's central to our lives now. This year, we have Rob Kirkpatrick's “1969: The Year Everything Changed" and now Fred Kaplan's “1959," whose subtitle makes the same ...
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