Drawn from a selection of Time Inc. magazines, these
pictures are important landmarks in the non-stop journey towards an unknown but knowable future. The period covered by this book (the decades from 1960 to 1990) was a period of hope, but it was also a time of struggle and sorrow. It was a period of triumph, but it was also a time of disasters, both man-made and natural. Above all, it was a period of change; a sweeping change that showcased the onward march of history. The 1960’s was the
decade of the cold war - Khrushchev and Kennedy ensured that it would be so. The Berlin wall, the Cuban missile crisis, the war in Vietnam, and Czechoslovakia followed one after the other. It was also the decade of the Hippies, and the Civil Rights movement, which Martin Luther King came to embody. But above all, the decade shall be remembered for the year 1969, when space became the new frontier and Man
left his footprints upon the moon. The 1970’s began with OPEC and rising oil prices. Threatened with impeachment over Watergate, Richard Nixon was forced to quit – the first Americn President to do so. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn left for America in search of freedom, and Mother Teresa won the Nobel Peace prize for her work with the poor. The world of cinema gave us Star Wars (and its many sequels) as science fiction went mainstream. The decade ended with the fall of Iran, and the Iranian hostage cisis. The 1980’s was the decade of Gorbachev, as the first stirrings of freedom were being felt across the Iron Curtain. Lech Walesa welcomed the Pope with open arms, and Germans from east and west
brought down the Berlin wall. It was the decade that Chernobyl brought home the dangers of nuclear technology. It was also the decade of the home computer, and computer games. The decade saw advances in information technology that brought us the Internet, Satellite Television and the Mobile telephone – gadgets that would further help in breaking down barriers between peoples and nations. The value of a picture book is that a picture is worth a thousand words. When we are
turning the leaves of this book, it is almost as if we were turning the pages of a
history text. These pictures have made history, these moments have helped to shape history. Some had left an imprint on our mind, others we had forgetten. This book helps us to refresh those memories…
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