The Fifties
by Halberstam, David
- Used
- very good
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0449909336
- ISBN 13
- 9780449909331
- Seller
-
Staten Island, New York, United States
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About This Item
New York: Ballantine Books, 1994. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Trade paperback. 800 pages.; Bibliography, Notes, Index. Illustrated with 32 pages of black and white photographs on coated stock . A Fawcett Columbine book; published by Ballantine Books. First Ballantine edition, first printing with full number line. Pulitzer Prize-winning author and journalist presents a revisionist glimpse at the 1950's the incubator many of the social, political and cultural upheavals that would follow a decade later. No previous ownership marks. No spine crease. Small retail price sticker on rear cover and moderate toning to extremities of text block from age. A clean, square, unmarked copy. Very good. .
Synopsis
"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 Kerouac and Elvis Presley."
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Details
- Bookseller
- Great Expectations Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 018041
- Title
- The Fifties
- Author
- Halberstam, David
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0449909336
- ISBN 13
- 9780449909331
- Publisher
- Ballantine Books
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1994
- Keywords
- History, Americana, American Culture
- Bookseller catalogs
- History;
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall
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About the Seller
Great Expectations Rare Books
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Staten Island, New York
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