1957 : the year that launched America's future /
In 1957, America turned its back on its earlier self and jumped headlong into the nation it has become today. From Sputnik and the beginning of the space race to Little Richard and the underappreciated influence of rock n' roll in bringing blacks and whites closer together, to President Eisenho...
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Lanham, Maryland :
Rowman & Littlefield,
[2020]
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Table of Contents:
- The mad bomber of New York
- The committee
- From Apalchin to Havana
- Highways to everywhere
- The design of an era
- The vagina in the grille
- Highways to nowhere
- Blacks against whites
- Whites with blacks
- Moving stories
- The man who believed in God
- The woman who believed in Man
- Gang wars on Broadway
- The youngest monster
- The successes of failure
- Muttnik
- Kaputnik
- The return of the Preacher Man.