Harlan Lebo

100 Days

How Four Events in 1969 Shaped America

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Produktbeschreibung

In this book, cultural historian Harlan Lebo looks back at the first Moon landing, Manson family murders, Woodstock, and the birth of the Internet to tell the story of how each event shaped the nation and how we perceive ourselves.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Juni 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 161mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 738g
• ISBN-13: 9781538125915
• ISBN-10: 1538125919
• Artikelnr.: 54381263

Autorenporträt

Harlan Lebo

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Four events that shaped America, with only 100 days from first to last
Author's Note
Part I: Moon
Chapter 1: Challenging the Impossible
Chapter 2: More than Bold Predictions
Chapter 3: That Irresistible Charisma
Chapter 4: The Sight of Whizzing Flashes
Chapter 5: Beep
Chapter 6: A Dull Thud
Chapter 7: Three Steps ahead of a Pack of Hounds
Chapter 8: No Choice but to be Pioneers
Chapter 9: Go
Chapter 10: A Magnificent Sight
Chapter 11: A Sense of Possibilities
Counterculture
Part II: Manson
Chapter 12: Like Moths to a Flame
Chapter 13: Mesmerized
Chapter 14: A Carnival Ride to the Apocalypse
Part III: Woodstock
Chapter 15: Grasshoppers in the Grain Fields
Chapter 16: Overtaken by the Feeling
Chapter 17: Coming from a Dream
Part IV: Internet
Chapter 18: Color and Flash
Chapter 19: "LO"
Chapter 20: How to Move the World from the Right Place
Chapter 21: Gaining Momentum
Chapter 22: On Hold
Chapter 23: Pumpkins and Mice
Chapter 24: All the Heavy Lifting
Chapter 25: Dissolving Containers
Epilogue
Acknowledgements
Resources
Bibliography
Notes
About the Author