1950s: The Not-So-Silent Generation
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Fred Kaplan's enlivening 1959: The Year Everything Changed, argues that the '50s -- a decade that saw the invention of the microchip and the creation of explosive art -- has been misunderstood in hindsight.
Tom Alderman | Posted 05.25.2011