The Fifties - by David Halberstam (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Best and the Brightest, The Powers That Be, and The Reckoning has created his masterpiece--a stunning, panoramic view of a pivotal and popular American decade. From Ike to Elvis, McCarthy to Marlon Brando, all the people and phenomena of that fabulous time are captured in Halberstam style. 32-page photo insert.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>The Fifties</b> 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. <p/>A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>David Halberstam</b> was a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and the author of numerous books, including <i>The Best and the Brightest, The Powers That Be, The Reckoning, Summer of '49, Playing for Keeps, </i> and <i>War in a Time of Peace. </i>He died in April 2007.
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