The fifties / David Halberstam.
| Author/creator | Halberstam, David author. |
| Format | Book |
| Edition | First edition. |
| Publication | New York : Villard Books, 1993. |
| Description | xi, 800 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Publisher description |
| Supplemental Content | Program air date: July 11, 1993 |
| Subjects |
| Review | "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. It is the decade of Joe McCarthy and the young Martin Luther King, the Korean War and Levittown, Jack Kerouac and Elvis Presley." "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. Here is a portrait of a time of conflict, at once an age of astonishing material affluence and a period of great political anxiety." "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."--Jacket. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 737-745) and index. |
| Digital Bookplate | Bookplate for Gene and Susan Roberts |
| Acquisitions source | Joyner Rare copy gift of Gene and Susan Roberts, 2016. |
| Issued in other form | Online version: Halberstam, David. Fifties. 1st ed. New York : Villard Books, 1993 |
| Genre/form | History. |
| LCCN | 92056815 |
| ISBN | 0679415599 |
| ISBN | 9780679415596 |
| ISBN | 0679747257 (RANDOM HOUSE LARGE PRINT EDITION) |
| ISBN | 9780679747253 (RANDOM HOUSE LARGE PRINT EDITION) |
| ISBN | 9780449909331 |
| ISBN | 0449909336 |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joyner | Rare Collection | E169.Z8 H34 1993 | ✔ Available | Request Material |