The Fifties
by HALBERSTAM, David
- Used
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- very good(+)/very good(+)
- Seller
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New York, New York, United States
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About This Item
New York: Villard, 1993. hardcover. very good(+)/very good(+). Illustrated with black and white photographs. 800 pages. Thick 8vo, black boards, dust wrapper. New York: Villard, (1993). First Edition. Somewhat pulled at head, else a near fine copy.<br/> <br/> Second printing, with a nice inscription to critic John Leonard -"For John and Sue Leonard with gratitude for the way they serve the past as well as the present and even more, the future."<br/> <br/>
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
- Argosy Book Store (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 315296
- Title
- The Fifties
- Author
- HALBERSTAM, David
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - very good(+)
- Jacket Condition
- very good(+)
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Villard
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1993
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Argosy Book Store
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New York, New York
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