The Fifties
About this book
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.
Subjects
- civilisation
- conditions économiques
- conditions sociales
- culture populaire
- economic conditions
- economic history
- états-unis
- histoire
- history
- large type books
- manners and customs
- moeurs et coutumes
- mœurs et coutumes
- new york times reviewed
- nineteen fifties
- politics and government
- politique et gouvernement
- popular culture
- popular culture, united states
- social life and customs
- united states, economic conditions, 1945-
- united states, politics and government, 1945-1989
- united states, social life and customs