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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.
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Politics and government, Social life and customs, Economic conditions, Popular culture, History, Nineteen fifties, Histoire, Mœurs et coutumes, Conditions sociales, Manners and customs, Civilisation, Culture populaire, Moeurs et coutumes, États-Unis, Politique et gouvernement, Conditions économiques, Economic history, United states, social life and customs, United states, politics and government, 1945-1989, United states, economic conditions, 1945-, Popular culture, united states, Large type books, New York Times reviewedPlaces
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1945-, 20th century, 1945-1989, 1945-1970Showing 7 featured editions. View all 7 editions?
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The Fifties
April 24, 1996, Random House Value Publishing
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0517156075 9780517156070
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The fifties
1993, Random House Large Print in association with Villard Books
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0679747257 9780679747253
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"In the beginning, that era was dominated by the shadow of a man no longer there-Franklin D. Roosevelt."
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