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Major events that affect change in a society are not spontaneous but have occurred because of small, seemingly insignificant occurrences that build together to create what most people actually see. Most of the premise of the book, "1959, The Year That Changed Everything" is a collection of stories about these small events that would lead to what many think is the most defining decade of sociological change for the US, the 1960's. From the Beat generation writers, the new musicians like Coltrane, Davis and Coleman, the art of Cassavettes, Pollack to the beginnings of the movements to equalize rights for blacks and women, Kaplan has written interesting and often humorous stories of the seeds that were planted in 1959.
The book was almost a collection of short stories for me and could be read a chapter at a time. It was interesting and informative, but it wasn't anything that I couldn't put down or wait to pick up.