The 1960s' Most Wanted (TM)

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The 1960s' Most Wanted (TM)

The Top 10 Book of Hip Happenings, Swinging Sounds, and out-of-Sight Oddities

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Stuart Shea

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Most Wanted (TM)

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The 1960s was a decade of contrasts. It had the Summer of Love, but it also witnessed the assassinations of three American leaders. It fulfilled President Kennedy's promise of successfully landing a man on the moon but also saw the beginning of the ultimately disastrous Vietnam War. It gave us beach tunes on one end, psychedelic songs to trip to on the other, and in between heralded the British Invasion. Now you can look back on and celebrate all the events and fads from the 1960s with Stuart Shea's trivia-laden The 1960s' Most Wanted[trademark]: The Top 10 Book of Hip Happenings, Swinging Sounds, and Out-of-Sight Oddities from Brassey's Most Wanted[trademark] series (see pages 68 and 69). Lucky Charms cereal was introduced in 1964 with more than fifty percent sugar, the first cereal to pass the halfway point in sugar content. In 1967, Louis Washkansky was the recipient of the first-ever heart transplant. In 1961, the entire U.S. Olympic figure skating team was killed in an airplane crash in Belgium. And in 1965, with the now-classic songs "Turn, Turn, Turn," "Satisfaction," "My Girl," and "Yesterday" debuting on the airwaves, the Grammy for best rock-and-roll recording instead wen

Author Biography:

Stuart Shea is the author of Rock & Roll's Most Wanted: The Top 10 Book of Lame Lyrics, Egregious Egos, and Other Oddities (Brassey's, Inc., 2002) and Wrigley Field (Brassey's, Inc, 2004). He lives in Chicago.

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January 31st, 2006

Author

Stuart Shea

Audience

General (US: Trade)

Country of Publication

United States

Imprint

Potomac Books Inc

Pages

290

Publisher

Potomac Books Inc

Series

Most Wanted (TM)

Dimensions

127x203x20

ISBN-13

9781574887211

Product ID

7568336

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