The Last Innocent Year: America in 1964--The Beginning of the Sixties

Margolis, Jon

ISBN 10: 068817907X / ISBN 13: 9780688179076

Published by Harper Perennial, 2000

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Last Innocent Year: America in 1964--The Beginning of the Sixties
• Publisher: Harper Perennial
• Publication Date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 068817907X
• ISBN 13: 9780688179076
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

The year was 1964, John Kennedy was dead and the country was reeling from the aftermath of his assasination.  The Warren Commission was sifting evidence.  Lyndon Johnson was beginning to tear down Camelot to build the Great Society.  Young men started burning draft cards.  Rioting African Americans burned neighborhoods.  The "conflict" in Vietnam was escalating and Jackie Kennedy was fast on her way to becoming an icon of dignified widowhood.  The year 1964 was when the Beatles crossed the pond, Elizabeth Taylor dumped Eddie Fisher for Richard Burton, and the Beverly Hillbillies was all the rage on television.  In The Last Innocent Year, Jon Margolis weaves a narrative populated by some of the most dynamic  figures of this century, from Robert Kennedy to Timothy Leary, from J. Edgar Hoover to Martin Luther King Jr.  The result is a compelling chronicle of the events of 1964, the year that marked a watershed in American history.

About the Author

Jon Margolis was a writer and reporter for the Chicago Tribune for twenty-two years, primarily as the newspaper's chief national political correspondent. He led the Tribune's coverage of presidential elections from 1976 to 1988 and has also written for The New York Times Magazine, Esquire, The New Republic, Ms., and the Saturday Review. A resident of Washington, D.C., for most of his career, Margolis now lives and writes in Barton, Vermont.