The Fifties by David Halberstam

The Fifties by David Halberstam

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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ISBN 13	9780449909331
ISBN 10	0449909336
Title	The Fifties
Author	David Halberstam
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Random House USA Inc
Year published	1994-05-10
Number of pages	848
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