Author Description

The first book ever to examine the coolest, most influential, and most groundbreaking year in pop culture history! Music, movies, television, fashion, celebrities, books, magazines, superheroes, comic. books, and toys... all in one book! Pop historian and radio host Hal Lifson opens up his personal treasure chest of collectibles and '60s memorabilia to create the most innovative graphic book on the '60s ever published. It is a personal guidebook through every important cultural phenomenon of the impressive and influential, landmark year of 1966. Take a groovy tour through the most fondly remembered year of the baby boomer era. This was the year of Star Trek, The Monkees, Batman, and How the Grinch Stole Christmas. In music, it was the Beatles' Revolver, the Beach Boys' Pet Sounds and Dylan's Blonde on Blonde. Hal Lifson provides his very personal take on this very important year in pop culture that changed history forever. Many of the phenomena of that year are still popular and revered now, 36 years later. Whether you want to relive the magic of the '60s or experience it for the first time, this book will bring that time to life.