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1987 looked like the safest year of the decade. It wasn't.
Behind the roaring markets, blockbuster movies, neon fashion, and booming optimism, the world was shifting in ways no one understood. 1987: The Year the Ground Trembled reveals the truth: this quiet, prosperous year wasn't a pause between crises-it was the blueprint for the world we live in today.

If you want to understand why the modern age feels volatile, globalized, digital, and divided, you must understand 1987.

This is not another nostalgia tour of the 1980s.
It's a gripping modern-history narrative that exposes the moment when global systems-economic, political, cultural, and technological-left the old world behind and stepped, unknowingly, into the future.

Readers of The Nineties, The World for Sale, The Lords of Finance, or any bestselling financial history book will be hooked instantly.

Inside 1987: The Year the Ground Trembled, Adrian Wolfe pulls back the curtain on:

Black Monday-the day that redefined risk

The most misunderstood financial disaster of the 20th century.
A crash driven not by fundamentals, but by belief, psychology, and the early dangers of automated trading.
A warning that predicted every crisis that came after-from the dot-com bubble to 2008.

The Cold War's quiet turning point

The INF Treaty didn't end the Cold War-it began its slow collapse.
Superpowers stopped preparing for victory and started preparing for survival.
What looked like diplomacy was actually the first crack in a global order already eroding.

The beginnings of globalization

The origin story of the global supply chains that define today's economy.
How trade ties, synchronized markets, and interdependent systems were born long before the world understood the consequences.

Japan's unstoppable rise-and hidden fragility

A booming titan believed to have "won the economic future."
A nation admired, feared, imitated-and secretly cracking under the weight of its own asset mania.

The dawn of the digital revolution

Before the internet, before smartphones, before social media-1987 wired the world.
PCs became household tools. Early networks formed the skeleton of the future internet.
Semiconductors globalized production. Satellites shrank the world.
The digital age began long before the 1990s-just quietly.

Culture splintering into niches

MTV reshaping youth identity.
Media choices expanding.
Music, fashion, film, and technology fragmenting culture into micro-scenes.
1987 marked the end of the collective experience and the rise of personal curation.

The middle class squeezed between optimism and anxiety

Wages lagging behind expectations, dual-income households rising, suburban pressures increasing-
all masked beneath the glow of prosperity.

What makes this book unmissable is its central argument:
1987 wasn't a dramatic break.
It was a subtle shift-one that only makes sense when viewed from the future.
It forecast the 1990s, shaped the 2000s, and still echoes in today's global crises, cultural divides, and digital transformations.

For readers who love:
20th century history
Black Monday stock market crash analysis
Cold War end analysis
globalization origins
financial history bestseller titles
digital revolution history
geopolitical narrative nonfiction

This book will become your next obsession.

If the modern world feels unstable, interconnected, and accelerated-1987 is the reason.
Read the year that changed everything.

Parametry knihy

• Plný název: 1987
• Podnázev: The Year the Ground Trembled : A Study of a Transformational Year in Modern History
• Autor: Adrian Wolfe
• Jazyk: Angličtina
• Vazba: Brožovaná
• Počet stran: 226
• EAN: 9798276770147
• ID: 50622947
• Nakladatelství: Independently published
• Hmotnost: 310 g
• Rozměry: 229 × 152 × 12 mm
• Datum vydání: 30. November 2025

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