The Fifties

Halberstam, David

ISBN 10: 0679415599 / ISBN 13: 9780679415596

Published by Villard, 1993

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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. 250,000 first printing. $250,000 ad/promo. Tour.

From the Inside Flap: 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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Bibliographic Details

Title: The Fifties
Publisher: Villard
Publication Date: 1993
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good