The 1950s
By: Richard A. Schwartz.
Series: An eyewitness history
Publisher: Facts On File
Published: 2003
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 504
Subjects: Nineteen fifties -- Juvenile literature.; Nineteen fifties.; United States -- Civilization -- 1945- -- Juvenile literature.; United States -- History -- 1945-1953 -- Juvenile literature.; United States -- History -- 1953-1961 -- Juvenile literature.; United States -- Civilization -- 1945-; United States -- History -- 1945-1953.; United States -- History -- 1953-1961.
Genres: Juvenile literature.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 471-488) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Postwar prelude: 1945-1949; title: America becomes the world's policeman: 1950; title: The Cold War settles in: 1951; title: "I like Ike": 1952; title: New leadership in Washington and Moscow: 1953; title: Separate is not equal: 1954; title: Self-created annihilation becomes a possibility: 1955; title: Ike and Elvis, Budapest and the Suez: 1956; title: Sputnik and Little Rock: 1957; title: America enters outer space: 1958; title: America expands into the Pacific: 1959.