The Century
Subtitle: America's time : 9 : Happy days
By: with Peter Jennings ; produced by ABC News in association with The History Channel
Contributors: Goodman, Roger; Sturken, Justin; Bond, Julian, 1940-; Hefner, Hugh M. (Hugh Marston), 1926-; Phillips, Sam, 1962-; Greenfield, Jeff; Clark, Dick, 1929-2012; Beals, Melba; ABC News; History Channel (Television network); Films for the Humanities (Firm)
Series: HIS 220B (NU course); SOC 350 (NU course)
Publisher: Films for the Humanities & Sciences
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Princeton, NJ
Language: eng
Format: [videorecording] :
Number of pages: 45
Subjects: Nineteen fifties; Popular culture; History; Korean War, 1950-1953; Suburbs; Consumption (Economics); Television; Rock music; History and criticism; African Americans; Social conditions; Segregation in transportation; School integration; Automobiles; Cold War; Atomic bomb; Astronautics; Civilization
Other titles: America's time.; Happy days; Century :; 1953-1960: Happy daze; Happy daze
Description: "The post-war baby boom, suburban living and Elvis Presley epitomize the contentment of the Eisenhower years. But these were also years marked by the Korean War, rabid McCarthyism, violent civil rights demonstrations, and a frightening escalation in the Cold War. This program probes the tensions between these crosscurrents in American history."--Container.
Notes: Writer/producer, Justin Sturken ; director, Roger Goodman ; editor, Tom Marcyes.

Commentary: Stephen Ambrose, Neil Simon, Loomis Irish, Hugh Hefner, Lloyd Price, Marty Rosenblum, Jeff Greenfield, Sam Phillips, David Halberstam, Dick Clark, Julian Bond, Melba Beals, Ernest Green, Richard Helms, Donald Walde.

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