{"title":"New Yorker: The Story Of A Decade","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"50s-the-story-of-a-decade-book-the-new-yorker-magazine-9780679644811","title":"The 50s: The Story of a Decade","description":"Including contributions by\u003cb\u003e Elizabeth Bishop - Truman Capote - John Cheever - Roald Dahl - Janet Flanner - Nadine Gordimer - A. J. Liebling - Dwight Macdonald - Joseph Mitchell - Marianne Moore - Vladimir Nabokov - Sylvia Plath - V. S. Pritchett - Adrienne Rich - Lillian Ross - Philip Roth - Anne Sexton - James Thurber - John Updike - Eudora Welty - E. B. White - Edmund Wilson\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e And featuring new perspectives by \u003cb\u003eJonathan Franzen - Malcolm Gladwell - Adam Gopnik - Elizabeth Kolbert - Jill Lepore - Rebecca Mead - Paul Muldoon - Evan Osnos - David Remnick\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe 1950s are enshrined in the popular imagination as the decade of poodle skirts and I Like Ike. But this was also a complex time, in which the afterglow of Total Victory firmly gave way to Cold War paranoia. A sense of trepidation grew with the Suez Crisis and the H-bomb tests. At the same time, the fifties marked the cultural emergence of extraordinary new energies, like those of Thelonious Monk, Sylvia Plath, and Tennessee Williams. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e was there in real time, chronicling the tensions and innovations that lay beneath the era's placid surface. 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Among the audacious young writers who began publishing in the fifties was one who would become a stalwart for the magazine in both fiction and criticism for fifty-five years: John Updike. Also featured here are great early works from Philip Roth and Nadine Gordimer, as well as startling poems by Theodore Roethke and Anne Sexton, among others. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Completing the panoply are insightful and entertaining new pieces by present day \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e contributors examining the 1950s through contemporary eyes. 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The magazine also published such indelible short story masterpieces as John Cheever's The Swimmer and John Updike's A \u0026amp; P, alongside poems by Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The arts underwent an extraordinary transformation during the decade, one mirrored by the emergence in \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e of critical voices as arresting as Pauline Kael and Kenneth Tynan. Among the crucial cultural figures profiled here are Simon \u0026amp; Garfunkel, Tom Stoppard, Bob Dylan, Allen Ginsberg, Mike Nichols and Elaine May, and Muhammad Ali (when he was still Cassius Clay). \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The assembled pieces are given fascinating contemporary context by current \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e writers, including Jill Lepore, Malcolm Gladwell, and David Remnick. 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