The Fifties Paperback - 1994
by David Halberstam
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Best and the Brightest, The Powers That Be, and The Reckoning has created his masterpiece--a stunning, panoramic view of a pivotal and popular American decade. From Ike to Elvis, McCarthy to Marlon Brando, all the people and phenomena of that fabulous time are captured in Halberstam style. 32-page photo insert.
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In the beginning, that era was dominated by the shadow of a man no longer there-Franklin D. Roosevelt.
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The Fifties is a sweeping social, political, economic, and cultural history of the ten years that Halberstam regards as seminal in determining what our nation is today. Halberstam offers portraits of not only the titans of the age: Eisenhower Dulles, Oppenheimer, MacArthur, Hoover, and Nixon, but also of Harley Earl, who put fins on cars; Dick and Mac McDonald and Ray Kroc, who mass-produced the American hamburger; Kemmons Wilson, who placed his Holiday Inns along the nation's roadsides; U-2 pilot Gary Francis Powers; Grace Metalious, who wrote Peyton Place; and "Goody" Pincus, who led the team that invented the Pill.
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- Title The Fifties
- Author David Halberstam
- Binding Paperback
- Edition [ Edition: Repri
- Pages 848
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Ballantine Books, New York
- Date 1994-05-10
- Illustrated Yes
- ISBN 9780449909331 / 0449909336
- Weight 1.5 lbs (0.68 kg)
- Dimensions 8.3 x 5.5 x 1.5 in (21.08 x 13.97 x 3.81 cm)
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- Chronological Period: 1950's
- Chronological Period: 20th Century
- Library of Congress subjects Popular culture - United States - History -, United States - Politics and government -
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 93091045
- Dewey Decimal Code 973.92
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