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# 1959: The Year Everything Changed

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## Customer Reviews

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    It was a very good year?
  

*by P***A on Reviewed in the United States on September 10, 2016*

Kaplan makes an excellent case the year 1959 was one, if not ‘the’, turning point for subsequent decades of USA history.  The book is clearly an introduction to forces leading up to what happened in 1960 and rest of the decade.  Among other things the USA dominant position in international affairs includes much of what happened in 1959.  He writes history as literature including insights typically not found in more traditional historians such as Paul Johnson.  Johnson’s “Modern Times” hypothesizes that relativity theory spread as a forceful idea effectively permuting subsequent socio-cultural and economic patterns of world history.  Johnson’s book covers history from 1919 to 1979 compared to one year for Kaplan. ‘1959’ is essentially only concerned with historical experiences in the USA. The thesis of Kaplan’s book is stated in early pages as “A feeling took hold that the breakdown of barriers in space, speed and time made other barriers ripe for transgressing.”  This is directly comparable to the first chapter in Johnson’s book “Modern Times” which articulates events confirming relativity dating from physical measurements made in the critical year 1919.  “It was”, Johnson states, “as though the globe had been taken off its axis and cast adrift in a universe which no longer conformed to accustomed standards of measurements.”  It was felt there were, therefore, few or perhaps no standards for measuring all human behavior any more.  Reading Kaplan (2008) and Johnson (1992) together is not a bad idea though Kaplan is the more current and fluent of the two. Robert, another Kaplan, also writes (“The Coming Anarchy”) from a different piont of view about threats of nation-state disintegration he traces to tribalism and sectarianism. Both of these are consequences, and as well as influences, of events in 1959, 1919 and subsequent worldwide socio-politco-economic changes of every ilk.  A common thread in all of these books is technology which, for the curious, leads to reading many other books being published distinctly establishing power of technology to influence everything in human life as well as the environment. While there is much to be gained by reading all three of these books selecting just “1959” supplies a broader discussion of all diverse and complex forces affecting the world today begun in a single year  The most important element left out of these books is climate change.  Tracing exact influences between climate and socio-politico-economic forces is more complex but are clearly definable vector forces as in corporate drive to capture large segments of earth’s surface for the mineral values.  Explicit and elementary actions damaging localities as in eastern USA coal or Peruvian copper mines for example.

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    ... 'the roots' of the 60's and this was a good addition to my list of references
  

*by S***T on Reviewed in the United States on October 2, 2016*

I've become fascinated with 'the roots' of the 60's and this was a good addition to my list of references.  I don't completely 'get' Howl or Ginsberg, - nor am I a fan of Elvis - but have to be respectful of their influence on culture from then on - this was a great book in the sense that Kaplan is exacting and thorough...I think some of the literary 'breakthroughs' of that time were ignored and that Norman Mailer's influence was exaggerated, but that may be personal preference.

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    Fascinating! 1959 truly did change everything...
  

*by G***A on Reviewed in the United States on July 9, 2013*

...I am amazed at the events that took place in 1959, but there are also so many similarities in the events that are taking place today!  I am enjoying this book about what the country was going through when I was just six years old from an adult perspective. It makes me feel that we will be all right and get through what is happening today, just as our parents did fifty four years ago.I highly recommend reading this book as so much of our countries history has been forgotten and overlooked. The Audible version is very well done.

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