The Fifties
By (Author) David Halberstam
Random House USA Inc
Fawcett
29th July 1994
United States
General
Non Fiction
973.918
848
Width 137mm, Height 208mm, Spine 38mm
641g
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. A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
David Halberstamwas a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist andthe author of numerous books, includingThe Best and the Brightest,The Powers That Be, The Reckoning, Summer of '49,Playing for Keeps,andWar in a Time of Peace.He died in April 2007.