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1969: The Year Everything Changed
Contributor(s): Kirkpatrick, Rob (Author)
ISBN: 1602393664     ISBN-13: 9781602393660
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing
OUR PRICE:   $22.46  
Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats
Published: January 2009
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Annotation: Compelling, timely, and quite simply a blast to read, "1969" chronicles this pivotal year in American history through all its ups and downs, in culture and society, sports, music, film, politics, and technology.
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BISAC Categories:
- History | United States - 20th Century
- History | Social History
- History | Modern - 20th Century
Dewey: 973.92
LCCN: 2008043073
Physical Information: 1.07" H x 6.38" W x 8.94" (1.29 lbs) 320 pages
Themes:
- Chronological Period - 1960's
- Chronological Period - 20th Century
 
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Publisher Description:
For the fortieth anniversary of 1969, Rob Kirkpatrick takes a look back at a year when America witnessed many of the biggest landmark achievements, cataclysmic episodes, and generation-defining events in recent history.

1969 was the year that saw Apollo 11 land on the moon, the Cinderella stories of Joe Namath's Jets and the "Miracle Mets," the Harvard student strike and armed standoff at Cornell, the People's Park riots, the first artificial heart transplant and first computer network connection, the Manson family murders and cryptic Zodiac Killer letters, the Woodstock music festival, Easy Rider, Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five, the Battle of Hamburger Hill, the birth of punk music, the invasion of Led Zeppelin, the occupation of Alcatraz, death at Altamont Speedway, and much more. It was a year that pushed boundaries on stage (Oh Calcutta ), screen (Midnight Cowboy), and the printed page (Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Sex), witnessed the genesis of the gay rights movement at Stonewall, and started the era of the "no fault" divorce. Richard Nixon became president, the New Left squared off against the Silent Majority, William Ayers co-founded the Weatherman Organization, and the nationwide Moratorium provided a unifying force in the peace movement.

Compelling, timely, and quite simply a blast to read, 1969 chronicles the year through all its ups and downs, in culture and society, sports, music, film, politics, and technology. This is a book for those who survived 1969, or for those who simply want to feel as alive as those who lived through this time of amazing upheaval.