1968: in that single year, MLK and RFK were assassinated, Chicago rioted, Nixon triumphed, and Tet exploded. The top music acts were the Beatles, the Doors, Otis Redding and Marvin Gaye. Man circled the Moon. From Civil Rights to Vietnam, from rock & roll to rocket science, 1968 stands out as a concentrated dose of everything we think of as the Sixties.

Analyzes the revolution which took place in such areas as writing, movies, television, commercial art, and music in the nineteen sixties.

An analysis of the political and cultural forces that gave rise to the personal computer chronicles its development through the people, politics, and social upheavals that defined its time.

Mark Blake draws on his own interviews with band members as well as the group?s friends, road crew, musical contemporaries, former housemates, and university colleagues to produce a riveting history of one of the biggest rock bands of all time. We follow Pink Floyd from the early psychedelic nights at UFO, to the stadium-rock and concept-album zenith of the seventies, to the acrimonious schisms of the late ?80s and ?90s. Along the way there are fascinating...

A gripping and engagingly written guide to the New Left, antiwar movement, and counterculture that personify the 1960s cultural revolution.

"Middle school readers will find out about the important world, national, and cultural developments of the decade 1960-1969"--Provided by publisher.