The Resource The fifties, by David Halberstam
The fifties, by David Halberstam
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- Summary
- "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
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Extent
- xi, 800 p., [32] p. of plates
- Isbn
- 9780679415596
- Label
- The fifties
- Title
- The fifties
- Statement of responsibility
- by David Halberstam
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "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
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Halberstam, David
- Dewey number
- 973.92
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- E169.02
- LC item number
- .H34 1993
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Popular culture
- United States
- United States
- United States
- Label
- The fifties, by David Halberstam
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Dimensions
- 25 cm.
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Extent
- xi, 800 p., [32] p. of plates
- Isbn
- 9780679415596
- Lccn
- 92056815
- Other physical details
- ill., ports.
- System control number
- ocm27188295
- Label
- The fifties, by David Halberstam
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Dimensions
- 25 cm.
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Extent
- xi, 800 p., [32] p. of plates
- Isbn
- 9780679415596
- Lccn
- 92056815
- Other physical details
- ill., ports.
- System control number
- ocm27188295
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