The Fifties (Random House Large Print) - Softcover

Halberstam, David

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0679747257 ISBN 13: 9780679747253

Publisher: Random House Large Print, 1993

Synopsis

The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist examines the social, political, economic, and cultural history of the 1950s. by the author of The Best and the Brightest and The Summer of '49. Simultaneous. (History)

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fties 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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Edition details

• Publisher: Random House Large Print
• Publication date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0679747257
• ISBN 13: 9780679747253
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 1421