100 Days: How Four Events in 1969 Shaped America

Reviews and comments

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“There have been a number of books focused on the Moon landing, Woodstock, the Manson murders and the beginning of the Internet. Only Lebo has weaved these stories together as a master storyteller to look at the common themes and how they define the end of the 1960s.

“Through Lebo’s eyes, these events, coming a year after the nation’s political and social fabric was torn apart in 1968, represent the beginning of a new age. These events share more than a calendar year; they signify the opening of a new chapter in American history.”

Jeffrey Cole
Director and CEO, Center for the Digital Future

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“How can one author authoritatively and engagingly write about four such disparate events? Harlan Lebo tells the political, scientific, and popular story of how the United States came from behind to be the first nation to put footprints on the moon, then effortlessly shifts to true crime writer, describing how sociopath Charles Manson could suck lost young souls into his web of ultraviolence.

“Pivot again to Woodstock, the baby boom’s symbol of the utopian society that might have been, and finally to—wait for it—the invention of the Internet. Lebo deals with technical subjects with deftness and in a style that is at once succinct and entertaining. And, believe it or not, he connects the dots of these world-changing events that all happened in a span of 100 days in 1969. Far out!”

Wade Lawrence
Museum Director and Senior Curator
The Museum at Bethel Woods
Bethel Woods Center for the Arts

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