The Eights | 1958 and the Culture War Rumblings

The Brian Lehrer Show | May 10, 2018

Fred Kaplan, Slate's War Stories columnist and the author of 1959: The Year Everything Changed (Wiley, 2010) and Dark Territory: The Secret History of Cyber War (Simon & Schuster, 2016), discusses the political and cultural climate of 1958 in the next episode of "The Eights: A Brief History of the American Culture Wars."

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