The Fifties

By David Halberstam

Subjects: Civilisation, Politics and government, Culture populaire, Conditions sociales, United states, politics and government, 1945-1989, United states, economic conditions, 1945-, Conditions économiques, Large type books, Mœurs et coutumes, Manners and customs, Politique et gouvernement, Histoire, Moeurs et coutumes, Popular culture, united states, Popular culture, Nineteen fifties, New York Times reviewed, États-Unis, Economic conditions, Social life and customs, United states, social life and customs, Economic history, History

Description: 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.