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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Halberstam, David. Fifties. New York : Villard Books, 1993 (OCoLC)654121265 |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
David Halberstam |
| ISBN: | 0679415599 9780679415596 0679747257 9780679747253 9780449909331 0449909336 |
| OCLC Number: | 27188295 |
| Description: | xi, 800 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Responsibility: | David Halberstam. |
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Abstract:
"The Fifties is a sweeping social, political, economic, and cultural history of the ten years that David Halberstam regards as seminal in determining what our nation is today. It is the decade of Joe McCarthy and the young Martin Luther King, the Korean War and Levittown, Jack Kerouac and Elvis Presley." "Halberstam not only gives us the titans of the age - Eisenhower, Dulles, Oppenheimer, MacArthur, Hoover, and Nixon - but also 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 Francis Gary Powers; Grace Metalious, who wrote Peyton Place; and "Goody" Pincus, who led the team that invented the Pill. Here is a portrait of a time of conflict, at once an age of astonishing material affluence and a period of great political anxiety." "We follow, among other things, the quickening pace of American life and the powerful impact of national television, still in its infancy, on American society: from the Kefauver hearings to I Love Lucy to Charles Van Doren and the quiz-show scandals to the young John Chancellor of NBC covering the Little Rock riots and holding up a disturbing mirror to America."--Jacket.
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