Book, Almanac 1964: facts, stories and curiosities from a year[LS]

In 1964, the world was boiling. Brazil began to live under a military dictatorship since, on March 31, the Army took power, stifling democracy and restricting various individual rights. Everything changed. Abroad, the Vietnam War, the tension between the powers that controlled the atomic bomb and the fight for civil rights in the United States showed a world in upheaval. And not just in politics. Old values ​​were crumbling, heralding a new world - for better and for worse. From Nara Leão to Bob Dylan, from Chico Buarque to the Beatles and Rolling Stones, including Glauber Rocha, the 007 films, the monokini, the racquetball in Ipanema - everything in culture and society that year seemed to be in full effervescence. This is the universe that Ana Maria Bahiana recovers - with intelligence and pop text, rigor in the treatment of facts and attention to those delicious details that help to portray an era - in Almanaque 1964. Using the more relaxed language of the almanac, with many photos, A lightweight and highly informative text, the volume is a delightful and instructive tour through a time that helped define, with violence, passion, sound and fury, the world today.