Paperback Revolution '66 - 66 Grooves & Pages

Paperback Revolution '66 - 66 Grooves & Pages

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Chapter 1

The year music broke the mold

Chapter 2

Television enters a new dimension

Chapter 3

Cinema's boundary pushers

Chapter 4

Paperbacks and political shifts

Ch 4 · Paperbacks and political shifts
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schopenhauer Gabriel Garcia Marquez led the Latin American literary boom.

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schopenhauer Chairman Mao Zedong's Little Red Book of political quotations

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schopenhauer Truman Capote pioneered the modern true crime genre.

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schopenhauer 1960s Political Paperbacks

Cheap books spin, protest gets in, new minds win.

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schopenhauer The rise of the science fiction New Wave

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The Latin American Boom

schopenhauer Gabriel García Márquez spent 1966 writing his masterpiece *One Hundred Years of Solitude*.

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Fun Fact

Capote's famous helper: Truman Capote researched his 1966 masterpiece *In Cold Blood* with help from his childhood friend, *To Kill a Mockingbird* author Harper Lee.

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The Little Red Book

schopenhauer China launched the Cultural Revolution in 1966, with Chairman Mao's book of quotations.

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Glossary
paperback (noun)
A book bound in a flexible paper cover. In 1966, millions of Chinese citizens carried Mao Zedong’s red paperback during the Cultural Revolution.

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Quiz

What political movement, characterized by massive student rallies and the 'Little Red Book,' began in China in 1966?

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Gossip

Which book genre do you read most?

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Paperbacks and political shifts
BETA

schopenhauer Match 1966 paperbacks and hit songs to discover how pop culture changed forever.

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Quiz

Which landmark 1966 historical novel by Japanese author Shūsaku Endō explores the struggles of Portuguese Jesuit missionaries in 17th-century Japan?

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Quiz

Which 1966 novel by Daniel Keyes tells the story of Charlie Gordon, whose intelligence is artificially increased through surgery?

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Quiz

In 1966, which Colombian author completed writing his landmark magical realist novel *One Hundred Years of Solitude*?

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Quiz

Which 1966 Jean Rhys novel acts as a postcolonial prequel to Charlotte Brontë's classic *Jane Eyre*?

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Quiz

Which American science fiction author published the Hugo Award-winning novel *The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress* in 1966?

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Quiz

Written by Flora Nwapa and published in 1966, *Efuru* holds what historic literary distinction?

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Quiz

Truman Capote's 1966 book *In Cold Blood* detailed the brutal murders of a family in which US state?

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