{"product_id":"new-york-city-1964-9780786479818","title":"New York City 1964","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNew York City 1964: A Cultural History is, as the title makes clear, a cultural history of New York City in the year 1964. The book focuses on five seminal events that occurred in the city that pivotal year: (1) the British Invasion, i.e., arrival of The Beatles in New York in February; (2) the murder of Kitty Genovese in Queens in March; (3) the world's fair that ran in Queens between April and October; (4) the race riots in Brooklyn and Harlem in July; and (5) the world series in the Bronx between the New York Yankees and the St. Louis Cardinals. Via an exploration of these five events - the biggest (and to some most threatening) thing to happen in pop culture since Elvis's appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show, a shocking crime that reportedly went ignored, the last great world's fair, a key, disturbing moment of the civil rights movement and a legendary contest in sports that represented the end of an era - readers will have a much better understanding and appreciation of the social t","brand":"McFarland \u0026 Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51038108680535,"sku":"9780786479818","price":20.89,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780786479818.jpg?v=1750939067","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/new-york-city-1964-9780786479818","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}