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Or rather "1959: the year some things important to the author changed." Kaplan is very, very good at describing the changes in arts and culture that happened during his titular year. He does so with compact, knife-sharp thumbnail sketches. In fact he covers everything with these thumbnail sketches (the book feels like a series of magazine articles more than anything else) but when he talks about politics it's somehow less interesting.

In any case his stuff on "Kind of Blue" and "The Shape of Jazz to Come" was pretty fresh even though those albums have been covered to death. A fun, quick read.