![]() ![]() 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. ![]() Here is a portrait of a time of conflict, at once an age of astonishing material affluence and a period of great political anxiety. 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. ![]() It is the decade of Joe McCarthy and the young Martin Luther King, the Korean War and Levittown, Jack Kerouac and Elvis Presley. 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. The fifties / David Halberstam Book Bib ID ![]()
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