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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. "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 Kerouae and Elvis Presley. With his extraordinary ability to erected dramatic yet intimate portraits, 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 Kroe, who mass-produced the American hamburger: Kemmons Wilson, who placed his Holiday Inns along the nation's roadsides: U2pilot Francis Gary Powers: Grace Metalious, who wrote "Peyton Place" and "Goody" Pincus, who led the team that invented the Pill. We follow, among other things, the quickening pace of American life and the powerful impact of national television, still in its infancy, on American society: from the Kefauver hearings to "I love Lucy" to Charles Van Doren and the quiz-show scandals to the young John Chancellor of NBC covering the Little Rock riots and holding up a disturbing mirror to America. Extra postage will be required due to the size of the book. Seller Inventory # 870
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