Nothing Can Change the Shape of Things to Come

"The culture was changing, too, as a new generation of artists and writers crashed through their own sets of barriers--and attracted growing audiences that, amid the newness all around them, were suddenly, even giddily, receptive to the iconoclasm."

Fred Kaplan in New York portrays turning points from fifty years ago, adapted from his new book, 1959: The Year Everything Changed.

And Kaplan discusses his book in Slate.