The Great Leap Author:John Brooks "The multiple revolutions in American life between 1939 and 1965 are the theme of this narrative of our times: changes so rapid and far-reaching as to be unprecedented not only in our experience but in that of any nation not suddenly transformed by war or plague. — 1939 was a watershed year. It was the year college boys took to eating goldfish [p... more »hoto of this]. Only one American in thirty paid any income tax. Communists dominated certain large and powerful labor organizations. War broke out in Europe and the atomic bomb project was conceived."« less