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This was interesting to me because it covered art' architecture, Jazz, Motown, technology, Cold War, arms race, space race, the Beats, and Civil Rights. Edsel and microchip also, but death of Buddy Holly was one sentence. Sure, Kind of Blue was big, but Ornette Coleman was less important than Holly or Elvis in retrospect. Also, artists like Jasper Johns or Jackson Pollack were pretentious crap Meisters. I guess my only quibble is what was left out, and it overemphasized the importance of Jazz and Modern Art. Don't get me wrong, I love Jazz, but I think that it kind of ended with Coltrane, and he was like a prophet in the desert, searching for something, while he was rambling, spouting non-sequiturs, foaming at the mouth. He didn't find what he was looking for, didn't find a direction. Ornette Coleman was not the direction that music was going. I think he was doing interesting stuff, but people didn't like it. Then you get people who think they are hip, on the cutting edge, liking music solely because it is difficult to understand. The situation is similar to when 12 tone rows and atonality became mandatory. Even Stalin complained to Shostokovich, with good reason. I am kind of going off on a tangent myself, because actually I really liked this book.