{"product_id":"the-last-innocent-year-america-in-1964-the-beginning-of-the-sixties-9780688179076","title":"The Last Innocent Year: America in 1964--The Beginning of the Sixties","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe 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 \u003cem\u003eBeverly Hillbillies\u003c\/em\u003e was all the rage on television. \u003cem\u003eIn The Last Innocent Year\u003c\/em\u003e, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMargolis, Jon:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Jon Margolis was a writer and reporter for the \u003cem\u003eChicago Tribune\u003c\/em\u003e for twenty-two years, primarily as the newspaper's chief national political correspondent. He led the \u003cem\u003eTribune\u003c\/em\u003e's coverage of presidential elections from 1976 to 1988 and has also written for \u003cem\u003eThe New York Times Magazine, Esquire, The New Republic, Ms., \u003c\/em\u003e and the \u003cem\u003eSaturday Review.\u003c\/em\u003e A resident of Washington, D.C., for most of his career, Margolis now lives and writes in Barton, Vermont.","brand":"Harper Perennial","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50487416619282,"sku":"9780688179076","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_76f547b7-15a6-4f7d-b497-67e6be9c94b8.jpg?v=1730439843","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-last-innocent-year-america-in-1964-the-beginning-of-the-sixties-9780688179076","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}