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All across the globe, ordinary people spoke out, filled the streets and city squares, and took up arms in an attempt to win their freedom.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eIn this dramatic, page-turning history, Simon Hall takes the long view of the year's events—putting them in their post-war context and looking toward their influence on the counterculture movements of the 1960s—to tell the story of the year's epic, global struggles from the point of view of the freedom fighters, dissidents, and countless ordinary people who worked to overturn oppressive and authoritarian systems in order to build a brave new world. It was an epic contest.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e1956\u003c\/i\u003e is the first narrative history of the year as a whole—and the first to frame its tumultuous events as part of an interconnected, global story of revolution.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003e\"Hall succeeds admirably in presenting 1956 as a year that belongs in the same revolutionary tradition as 1848 and 1968.\"\u003cbr\u003e\"A marvelous social history of that year.\"\u003cbr\u003e\"Fast-moving and vivid. Hall is a fluent and unobtrusive narrator.\"\u003cbr\u003e\"Taking an ambitious, panoramic view of a single year, Hall examines major events in postwar Europe, America, Africa, the Soviet Union, and the Middle East. Contemporary newspaper reports give the author's month-by-month narrative a vivid, you-are-there quality. 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Lehr’s engrossing and empathetic account will appeal to women of all ages.\"\u003cbr\u003e\"A unique blend of memoir and social history that should have broad appeal to anyone who has breasts or has ever worn a bra.\"\u003cbr\u003e\"When I was a little girl dreaming of having breasts, I had no idea about the non-stop ogling and boob worship I was in for as a woman in America. Leslie Lehr explains it all in this funny, passionate, upbeat book. You’ll never look at yourself in the mirror the same way again. Wow!”\u003cbr\u003e\"Deeply personal, wisely funny, and moving. 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