New York City 1964 - A Cultural History (Paperback)

New York City 1964: A Cultural History is, as the title makes clear, a cultural history of New York City in the year 1964. The book focuses on five seminal events that occurred in the city that pivotal year: (1) the ""British Invasion,"" i.e., arrival of The Beatles in New York in February; (2) the murder of Kitty Genovese in Queens in March; (3) the world's fair that ran in Queens between April and October; (4) the ""race riots"" in Brooklyn and Harlem in July; and (5) the world series in the Bronx between the New York Yankees and the St. Louis Cardinals. Via an exploration of these five events - the biggest (and to some most threatening) thing to happen in pop culture since Elvis's appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show, a shocking crime that reportedly went ignored, the last great world's fair, a key, disturbing moment of the civil rights movement and a legendary contest in sports that represented the end of an era - readers will have a much better understanding and appreciation of the social turbulence taking place in New York City and the United States in the mid-1960s.

General

Imprint:	McFarland & Company
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	March 2014
First published:	May 2014
Authors:	Lawrence R Samuel
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 21mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	216
ISBN-13:	978-0-7864-7981-8
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > General Books > History > General
LSN:	0-7864-7981-7
Barcode:	9780786479818

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