The Fifties in America
Author | : John C. Super |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 424 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Surveys the events and people of the United States and Canada from 1950 through 1959.
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Author | : John C. Super |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 424 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Surveys the events and people of the United States and Canada from 1950 through 1959.
Author | : Martin Halliwell |
Publisher | : Edinburgh University Press |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 2007-03-13 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0748628908 |
This book provides a stimulating account of the dominant cultural forms of 1950s America: fiction and poetry; theatre and performance; film and television; music and radio; and the visual arts. Through detailed commentary and focused case studies of influential texts and events - from Invisible Man to West Side Story, from Disneyland to the Seattle World's Fair, from Rear Window to The Americans - the book examines the way in which modernism and the cold war offer two frames of reference for understanding the trajectory of postwar culture. The two core aims of this volume are to chart the changing complexion of American culture in the years following World War II and to provide readers with a critical investigation of 'the 1950s'. The book provides an intellectual context for approaching 1950s American culture and considers the historical impact of the decade on recent social and cultural developments.
Author | : James R. Gaines |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2022-02-08 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1439101639 |
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.
Author | : Nicolas Rasmussen |
Publisher | : Johns Hopkins University Press |
Total Pages | : 199 |
Release | : 2019-03-26 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 1421428717 |
Fat in the Fifties is required reading for public health practitioners and researchers, physicians, historians of medicine, and anyone concerned about weight and weight loss.
Author | : David Halberstam |
Publisher | : Open Road Media |
Total Pages | : 1216 |
Release | : 2012-12-18 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1453286071 |
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.
Author | : Enzo George |
Publisher | : Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC |
Total Pages | : 50 |
Release | : 2015-07-15 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1502604949 |
Shortly after World War II, America experienced an incredible economic and technological boom as soldiers returned home from abroad. The middle class grew, and technology such as the automobile and television found their way into more and more homes. Explore the Fifties through the eyes of artists, politicians, and ordinary people.
Author | : Time-Life Books |
Publisher | : Time Life Medical |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780737002010 |
Examines the politics, suburbia, automobiles, art and entertainment, cold war, television, and sports of the 1950s.
Author | : Larry D. Gragg |
Publisher | : University of Oklahoma Press |
Total Pages | : 390 |
Release | : 2019-08-29 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0806165537 |
In 1950 Las Vegas saw a million tourists. In 1960 it attracted ten million. The city entered the fifties as a regional destination where prosperous postwar Americans could enjoy vices largely forbidden elsewhere, and it emerged in the sixties as a national hotspot, the glitzy resort city that lights up the American West today. Becoming America’s Playground chronicles the vice and the toil that gave Las Vegas its worldwide reputation in those transformative years. Las Vegas’s rise was no happy accident. After World War II, vacationing Americans traveled the country in record numbers, making tourism a top industry in such states as California and Florida. The Las Vegas Chamber of Commerce saw its chance and developed a plan to capitalize on the town’s burgeoning reputation for leisure. Las Vegas pinned its hopes for the future on Americans’ need for escape. Transforming a vice city financed largely by the mob into a family vacation spot was not easy. Hotel and casino publicists closely monitored media representations of the city and took every opportunity to stage images of good, clean fun for the public—posing even the atomic bomb tests conducted just miles away as an attraction. The racism and sexism common in the rest of the nation in the era prevailed in Las Vegas too. The wild success of Frank Sinatra’s Rat Pack performances at the Sands Hotel in 1960 demonstrated the city’s slow progress toward equality. Women couldn’t work as dealers in Las Vegas until the 1970s, yet they found more opportunities for well-paying jobs there than many American women could find elsewhere. Gragg shows how a place like the Las Vegas Strip—with its glitz and vast wealth and its wildly public consumption of vice—rose to prominence in the 1950s, a decade of Cold War anxiety and civil rights conflict. Becoming America’s Playground brings this pivotal decade in Las Vegas into sharp focus for the first time.
Author | : James Conaway |
Publisher | : Skira |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : History, Modern |
ISBN | : 9780847843732 |
"From the archive of Look comes a photographic portrayal of the dynamic era that sparked a transformation in America's political and cultural identity. From the Red Scare incited by Joseph McCarthy to the election of John F. Kennedy as president in 1960, best-selling journalist James Conaway charts an entertaining and highly readable year-by-year survey through the fifties as it heralded some of the most striking and clashing aspects of twentieth-century America."--Dust jacket flap.
Author | : Betty Friedan |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 366 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Feminism |
ISBN | : 9780140136555 |
This novel was the major inspiration for the Women's Movement and continues to be a powerful and illuminating analysis of the position of women in Western society___