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The Fifties

The Fifties

Paperback

20th Century United States HistoryGeneral World History

Publisher Price: $22.00

ISBN10: 0449909336
ISBN13: 9780449909331
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Published: May 10 1994
Pages: 848
Weight: 1.50
Height: 1.50 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.30
Language: English
The Fifties 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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