Introducing the new book by Fred Kaplan. . .
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“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 Striver’s Row, Dreamland,
and Paradise Alley
“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
"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, co-founder, Steely Dan
"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 science - that have brought us to the post-modern
age."
JONATHAN ALTER, Newsweek columnist and author of The Defining
Moment: FDR’s Hundred Days and the Triumph of Hope