The fifties, David Halberstam
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The fifties, David Halberstam
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 737-745) and index
Illustrations
platesillustrations
Index
index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
The fifties
Nature of contents
bibliography
Oclc number
27188295
Responsibility statement
David Halberstam
Review
"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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- Economic history
- États-Unis -- Civilisation -- 1945-
- United States + Social life and customs + 1945-1970
- United States + Politics and government + 1945-1989
- Politics and government
- Geschichte 1950-1960
- History
- Culture populaire -- États-Unis -- 20e siècle
- Geschichte + 1950-1960
- Nineteen fifties
- Since 1900
- États-Unis -- Mœurs et coutumes -- 1945-1970
- United States -- Politics and government -- 1945-1989
- Popular culture + History + 20th century + United States
- Popular culture
- Manners and customs
- Nineteen fifties
- USA
- États-Unis -- Moeurs et coutumes -- 1945-1970
- Culture populaire -- États-Unis -- Histoire -- 20e siècle
- États-Unis -- Conditions économiques -- 1945-1961
- États-Unis -- Politique et gouvernement -- 1945-1989
- Whitman College -- Memorial bookplates -- Class of 1960
- United States
- États-Unis + Conditions sociales -- 20e siècle
- United States -- Social life and customs -- 1945-1970
- Popular culture -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- United States + Economic conditions + 1945-
- United States -- Economic conditions -- 1945-
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- Economic history
- États-Unis -- Civilisation -- 1945-
- United States + Social life and customs + 1945-1970
- United States + Politics and government + 1945-1989
- Politics and government
- Geschichte 1950-1960
- History
- Culture populaire -- États-Unis -- 20e siècle
- Geschichte + 1950-1960
- Nineteen fifties
- Since 1900
- États-Unis -- Mœurs et coutumes -- 1945-1970
- United States -- Politics and government -- 1945-1989
- Popular culture + History + 20th century + United States
- Popular culture
- Manners and customs
- Nineteen fifties
- USA
- États-Unis -- Moeurs et coutumes -- 1945-1970
- Culture populaire -- États-Unis -- Histoire -- 20e siècle
- États-Unis -- Conditions économiques -- 1945-1961
- États-Unis -- Politique et gouvernement -- 1945-1989
- Whitman College -- Memorial bookplates -- Class of 1960
- United States
- États-Unis + Conditions sociales -- 20e siècle
- United States -- Social life and customs -- 1945-1970
- Popular culture -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- United States + Economic conditions + 1945-
- United States -- Economic conditions -- 1945-
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- Author1
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