The Fifties
(Book)
Author
Published
New York : Ballantine Books, 1994.
Format
Book
Edition
1st Ballantine books ed.
ISBN
0449909336, 9780449909331
Physical Desc
xi, 800 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : photographs ; 21 cm
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Falmouth - Main Library - Adult
FANGER COLLECTION 973.92 HAL
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FANGER COLLECTION 973.92 HAL
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Falmouth - Main Library - Adult | FANGER COLLECTION 973.92 HAL | On Shelf |
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Cape Cod Community College Wilkens Library - Second Floor | E169.02 .H34 1994 | On Shelf |
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Published
New York : Ballantine Books, 1994.
Edition
1st Ballantine books ed.
Language
English
ISBN
0449909336, 9780449909331
Notes
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 737-745) and index.
Description
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.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Halberstam, D. (1994). The Fifties (1st Ballantine books ed.). Ballantine Books.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Halberstam, David. 1994. The Fifties. Ballantine Books.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Halberstam, David. The Fifties Ballantine Books, 1994.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Halberstam, David. The Fifties 1st Ballantine books ed., Ballantine Books, 1994.
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