1966: The Year the Decade Exploded

by Jon Savage

Book Overview

The pop world accelerated and broke through the sound barrier in 1966. In America, in London, in Amsterdam, in Paris, revolutionary ideas slow-cooking since the late '50s reached boiling point. In the worlds of pop, pop art, fashion and radical politics -- often fueled by perception-enhancing substances and literature -- the 'Sixties', as we have come to know them, hit their Modernist peak. A unique chemistry of ideas, substances, freedom of expression...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0571277624
• ISBN13: 9780571277629
• Release Date: April 2016
• Publisher: Faber & Faber Social
• Length: 620 Pages
• Weight: 2.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.2" x 6.5" x 9.3"