The Fifties

The Fifties

Paperback (10 May 1994)

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Publisher's Synopsis

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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Book information

ISBN: 9780449909331
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Imprint: Ballantine
Pub date:
DEWEY: 973.918
DEWEY edition: 21
Language: English
Number of pages: 800
Weight: 698g
Height: 142mm
Width: 210mm
Spine width: 48mm