Skip Left Navigation Links
"When you come to a fork in the road, take it!"
--Yogi Berra
.
Calendars 2000
Millennium Marketplace
Find First Editions
About This Section
.
Click Here
for Your Best
Books & Music
of the Century

.
Click Here
for Our Best
Books & Music
of the Century


Next Year
Previous Year

1900 1910 1920 1930 1940 1950 1960 1970 1980 1990

Significant Books and Music of the Century, Year by Year
1990 was the year that the Gulf War began with Iraq's invasion of Kuwait; Nelson Mandela was freed after 25 years in a South African prison; Michael Milken, the junk bond king, was convicted of securities fraud; and MILLIE’S BOOK, about the Bush family's dog in the White House, became a No. 1 bestseller.


Significant Book of 1990:
John Updike's Rabbit at Rest

BOOK Updike's quartet, which begins with RABBIT RUN, follows the tribulations of his antihero, Rabbit Angstrom, through his middle-class American life. In this last Rabbit novel the author confronts the not-so-golden later years of his character, who by now has heart trouble, a condo in Florida, and a second grandchild.

  Significant Music of 1990:
 The Three Tenors in Concert

BOOK At the 1990 World Cup festivities in Rome, Luciano Pavarotti, Plácido Domingo, and José Carreras sang together for the first time and were transformed into the Three Tenors. Their spine-tingling performance was telecast live around the globe, and the subsequent recording became one of the biggest-selling classical albums of all time.




Previous Year

1990

 Next Year

Index of Years