Time Capsule of 1956: American Life, Culture, Breakthroughs, and World Events (Time Capsule Series)

A photo history of 1956 that explores everyday American life, culture, breakthroughs, and world events.Open the Time Capsule and step back into 1956!Across 200+ pages with 205 photos, vintage ads, and illustrations, this paperback black & while book is your time machine into a golden year for the United States.The Time Capsule books deliver history as a conversation with a knowledgeable friend, with the pace and visual energy of a fun magazine, and the substance of an engaging history book.Inside you'll find:Everyday life — from percolator coffee and breakfast cereals to factory floors, school buses, and evenings in front of the black-and-white TVMusic and culture — Elvis's four number-one hits, CBS owning prime time, and rock and roll moving from jukebox diners to living room television setsMovies, TV, and Books — from the year's top 25 films to the shows half the country watched, and the celebrities born in the yearSports history — the Melbourne Olympics with blood in the water polo pool, Don Larsen's perfect World Series game, and Montreal's start of a five-year Stanley Cup runAmerica and the World — the Suez Crisis, Hungary's uprising, and how both events confirmed that Washington and Moscow held the real power in 1956How families lived — homeownership at 60%, one factory paycheck covering a mortgage, a car, and the groceries, and tail-finned Chevrolets parked in driveways from coast to coastScience and innovation — IBM's first commercial hard disk, the world's first nuclear power station switching on, and the transatlantic telephone cable connecting continents for the first timeThe generation of 1956 — Baby Boomers who went from black-and-white TV and rotary phones to smartphones and AI, with Vietnam, the Cold War, and a pandemic in betweenWhether you were born or married in 1956, lived through it, or are discovering it for the first time, Time Capsule of 1956 is a perfect gift that offers a vivid, photo-rich view of the year and its lasting mark on the world that followedClick "Buy Now" to open the Time Capsule of 1956! Read more