The Fifties (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780449909331)

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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Author: David Halberstam
ISBN-10: 0449909336
ISBN-13: 9780449909331
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Language: English
Published: 05/10/1994
Pages: 848
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.50lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.50w x 1.50d