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The Fifties


Publishing Details

Full Title:

The Fifties

Contributors:

By (Author) David Halberstam

ISBN:

9780449909331

Publisher:

Random House USA Inc

Imprint:

Fawcett

Publication Date:

29th July 1994

Country:

United States

Classifications

Readership:

General

Fiction/Non-fiction:

Non Fiction

Dewey:

973.918

Physical Properties

Number of Pages:

848

Dimensions:

Width 137mm, Height 208mm, Spine 38mm

Weight:

641g

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. A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

Author Bio

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.

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