YOU ARE THERE - right in the middle of the1960s - a shocking decade
of the '67 Detroit Riot, assassinations, the Cold War, U2 spy
photos of the Cuban Missile Crisis and threat of nuclear
annihilation, the massacre of students at Kent State University,
first to Mars and first men to the moon - and much more. You will
see and read about events through the eyewitness accounts of the
author as he is forced into one unnerving incident after another in
a decade of unprecedented uncertainty, violence and terror that
gripped America in this amazing ten years right out of the
newspaper headlines. From V2 rockets over London to the frustration
of the Fight For Berlin and the murders of Dr. Martin Luther King
Jr. and Robert Kennedy, you will not believe how close our nation
came to certain disaster. This richly-illustrated second book in
the Technology Trilogy (1st book is Eight Against The World about
science genuises of the Renaissance) by a highly experienced writer
takes you back to the America of the 1960s for a fast-paced focus
on the outstanding events of a decade of cultural and Cold War
confusion. Basking in the prosperity of new products for the home,
Americans were not prepared for the shock of the Soviet Sputnik in
1957 that threw government and the American people into a panic. As
our culture was turned upside down, we entered a period of
near-anarchy made worse with the threat of nuclear war coming from
the Soviet Union and Cuba. Revolutions in music by Elvis and the
Beatles, and a younger generation rebellion prompted by "the bomb,"
we began a 20-year period of social chaos that weakened our basic
cultural values. This book shows how close we came to calamity in
the 1960s and 1970s.
General
| Imprint: |
Authorhouse
|
| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Release date: |
December 2007 |
| First published: |
December 2007 |
| Authors: |
Thomas W. Becker
|
| Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 7mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Paperback - Trade
|
| Pages: |
124 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-1-4343-4453-3 |
| Categories: |
Books
|
| LSN: |
1-4343-4453-3 |
| Barcode: |
9781434344533 |
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