num_pages: 797
description: 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 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.A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERFrom the Trade Paperback edition.
language: English
title: The Fifties
titlecomplete: The Fifties
genres: Historical, 20th Century, American, History, Business, Biography, United States, American History, Politics, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 6286
publisher: Random House Value Publishing