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...world, early rock and roll still was still driven by the same motivation of avant-garde art: questioning blind adherence to societal norms. What began as a search for personal identity among post-war teenagers resulted in a blow to the sanitized, suburban nuclear family unit of Eisenhower??s America. The resounding popularity of rock and roll icons Jerry Lee Lewis, Chuck Berry and Elvis Presley blurred the barriers between white and “colored,” poor and affluent, and right and wrong. Good little girls screamed upon witnessing the King’s pelvic...
...expertly explores the political landscape of the times. Despite his own leftist views, Perlstein carefully manages to leave his personal political biases out of the story, giving the reader an enjoyable rundown of Kennedy’s “Irish Mafia,” old-style Southern Democrats, Eisenhower??s essential acceptance of FDR’s New Deal and the growth of a young conservatives’ movement alongside the emergence of Students for a Democratic Society and sit-in activists. The book also gives an excellent analysis of the political geography of the time...