Somebody you love was born in 1960. Give them the year back.
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In 1960 Dwight Eisenhower was in the White House, and the country was about to choose between Kennedy and Nixon in the first televised debates. A first-class stamp cost four cents. Gasoline was about thirty-one cents a gallon. The median American family lived on $5,620 a year and the median house was worth $11,900. The 50-star flag flew for the first time on the Fourth of July.
This is not a dry list of dates. It is 101 short chapters about the world a 1960 baby was born into, and then about their own life: the milkman and the rotary phone, Green Stamps and the Sears Christmas catalog, the metal lunch box, Batman at five and Sesame Street in the fourth grade, staying up for the Moon landing, Star Wars the year you turned seventeen, the eight-track in the dash, CB radios, the gas lines, and the Atari in the den.
Inside: 101 fact cards, every one a real dated fact checked against two independent sources. 8 word search puzzles with full solution grids at the back. 40 trivia quiz questions across two quizzes, with all the answers. 8 original pencil illustrations opening the eight sections. Large print throughout, set in 12.5 point type.
Fill-in keepsake pages: where I was born, the house I grew up in, my first job, the best year of my life so far. Every chapter ends with a tick box, a quiz question or a line to write on. It is a book that gets answered, not just read, which is exactly why it gets kept.
It is a nostalgia book, a trivia book, a word search book and a memory keepsake in one, written in large print so nobody has to reach for their glasses.
