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Drawing on eye-witness accounts from Beatlemaniacs, journalists, broadcasters and TV producers, this captivating book recounts the Beatles' musical transformation throughout the pivotal year of 1963 and its far-reaching cultural impact as the world watched them go from the bottom of the bill to the biggest band on the planet.
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"In 1934, the Great Depression had destroyed the US economy, leaving residents poverty-stricken. First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt urged President Roosevelt to take radical action to help those hit hardest-Appalachian miners and mill workers stranded after factories closed, city dwellers with no hope of getting work, farmers whose land had failed. They set up government homesteads in rural areas across the country, an experiment in cooperative living where...