Author: Beth BaileyPublisher: Publications International
ISBN: 9781412715485
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
The Fifties Chronicle
Author: Beth BaileyPublisher: Publications International
ISBN: 9781412715485
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
The Fifties
Author: David HalberstamPublisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1453286071
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1216
Book Description
This vivid New York Times bestseller about 1950s America from a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist is “an engrossing sail across a pivotal decade” (Time). Joe McCarthy. Marilyn Monroe. The H-bomb. Ozzie and Harriet. Elvis. Civil rights. It’s undeniable: The fifties were a defining decade for America, complete with sweeping cultural change and political upheaval. This decade is also the focus of David Halberstam’s triumphant The Fifties, which stands as an enduring classic and was an instant New York Times bestseller upon its publication. More than a survey of the decade, it is a masterfully woven examination of far-reaching change, from the unexpected popularity of Holiday Inn to the marketing savvy behind McDonald’s expansion. A meditation on the staggering influence of image and rhetoric, The Fifties is vintage Halberstam, who was hailed by the Denver Post as “a lively, graceful writer who makes you . . . understand how much of our time was born in those years.” This ebook features an extended biography of David Halberstam.
The Fifties
Author: Douglas T. MillerFifties Flashback
Author: Dennis AdlerPublisher: Motorbooks
ISBN: 0760319278
Category : Automobiles
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
No other era in automotive history is as revered as the 1950s, when Detroit was the center of the auto world and the American V-8 was king of the road. With hundreds of color photos of beautiful restorations and a collection of rare archival photos, Dennis Adler has compiled a detailed history of the emerging postwar American auto industry.
American Chronicle
Author: Lois G. GordonPublisher:
ISBN: 9780300075878
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 998
Book Description
Covers American cultural history, encompassing politics, science, arts, entertainment, and major events
The Fifties
Author: Mary Ellen SterlingPublisher: Teacher Created Resources
ISBN: 1576900274
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 98
Book Description
The Fifties
Author: James R. GainesPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1439101639
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Introduction: Seeing in the dark -- Gay rights: "To be nobody but yourself" -- Feminism: "Meet Jane Crow" -- Civil rights: The war after the wars -- Ecology: Before we knew -- Epilogue: The best of us.
The 1950s
Author: Richard Alan SchwartzPublisher: Infobase Publishing
ISBN: 1438108761
Category : Nineteen fifties
Languages : en
Pages : 513
Book Description
Traces the history of the United States during the 1950s through such primary sources as memoirs, letters, contemporary journalism, and official documents.
The Fifties
Author: Brett HarveyPublisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 059522959X
Category : Feminism
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
Advanced academic degree, to raise children and keep a home in the suburbs, to follow your dreams of having a profession, and even to live, politically and sexually, far from the mainstream of American life. These are stories of women's lives - some very tragic, some remarkably heroic - and they reveal to us all over again an era we thought we knew so well.
As Seen on TV
Author: Karal Ann MarlingPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674735293
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
America in the 1950s: the world was not so much a stage as a setpiece for TV, the new national phenomenon. It was a time when how things looked--and how we looked--mattered, a decade of design that comes to vibrant life in As Seen on TV. From the painting-by-numbers fad to the public fascination with the First Lady's apparel to the television sensation of Elvis Presley to the sculptural refinement of the automobile, Marling explores what Americans saw and what they looked for with a gaze newly trained by TV. A study in style, in material culture, in art history at eye level, this book shows us as never before those artful everyday objects that stood for American life in the 1950s, as seen on TV.