The Fifties
by Halberstam, David
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0679415599
- ISBN 13
- 9780679415596
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About This Item
New York: Villard Books; Random House, 1993. xi, 800 pages, illustrations; 25 cm. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. Fine DJ. OVERSIZE! No priority/air, except by special arrangement. "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." - Publisher.. Hardcover. Very Good/Fine. 8vo.
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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- Bookseller
- LEFT COAST BOOKS (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 067892
- Title
- The Fifties
- Author
- Halberstam, David
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0679415599
- ISBN 13
- 9780679415596
- Publisher
- Villard Books; Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1993
- Size
- 8vo
- Bookseller catalogs
- American / 6. Late Modern, 1945-1999;
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