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1998 was the year that the Monica Lewinsky scandal broke, and President Clinton was impeached by the U.S. House of Representatives; a peace accord for Northern Ireland was reached; Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa both broke the home run record; and "Titanic" took the Oscar for Best Picture.


Significant Book of 1998:
Robert Stone's Damascus Gate

BOOK Robert Stone's National Book Award-nominated DAMASCUS GATE is the ultimate literary millennial thriller. Here Stone wrestles with issues of faith in the ancient city of Jerusalem, where religion, politics, and madness are inextricably bound, and where a plot unfolds to hasten the apocalypse by blowing up the sacred Temple Mount.

  Significant Music of 1998:
 The Backstreet Boys

BOOK The teen pop explosion hit full stride, with the success of the Spice Girls and Hanson paving the way for a full-on boy-band bonanza with the Backstreet Boys, 98°, and 'N Sync. The trend solidified into a genre the following year, when Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera, and even Charlotte Church made a case for the importance of elementary school music ed classes.




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