From the former host of NPR's Rock & Roll America, Richard Aquila's Rock & Roll in Kennedy's America offers an in-depth look at early 1960s rock & roll, as well as an unconventional history of Kennedy's America through the lens of popular music. Based on extensive research and exclusive interviews with Dion, Bo Diddley, Brenda Lee, Martha Reeves, Pete Seeger, Bob Gaudio, Dick Clark, and other legendary figures, the book rejects the myth that Buddy Holly's death in 1959 was "the day the music died." It proves that rock & roll during the early 1960s was vibrant and in tune with the history and events of this colorful era. 

New on the blog: A look at the Hopkins Press Internship Program, now in its second year.  Check out the impressive catalog our interns created last spring, and meet our 2022-23 cohort of bright, creative students learning and working alongside Hopkins Press staff. 

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The collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 left its nearly 30,000 nuclear weapons spread over the territories of four newly sovereign states: Belarus, Kazakhstan, the Russian Federation, and Ukraine. This collapse cast a shadow of profound ambiguity over the fate of the world's largest arsenal of the deadliest weapons ever created. In Inheriting the Bomb, Mariana Budjeryn reexamines the history of nuclear predicament caused by the Soviet collapse and the subsequent nuclear disarmament of the non-Russian Soviet successor states.

New on the Hopkins Press Podcast: An interview with Samuel Woolley, director of the Propaganda Research Lab at University of Texas Austin’s Center for Media Engagement. Listen to learn what his team discovered after interviewing the organizations and individuals that organize attempts to manipulate public opinion using social media and communication technologies.