The Fifties

David Halberstam

• Publisher: Open Road Media
• Year: 2012
• eBook ISBN: 9781453286074
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: 20th Century History
• Index: History

This vivid New York Times bestseller about 1950s America from the 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."

"Fascinating. . . . The Pulitzer Prize–winning author and journalist leaves no stone of the '50s unturned." — The Washington Post Book World

"Outstanding. . . . As journalist David Halberstam shows . . . events and key personalities during the '50s not only made the revolutionary '60s happen, they were also as full of ground-breaking episodes as any decade in 20th-century American history." — The Christian Science Monitor

This ebook features an extended biography of David Halberstam.

INDEX

A | B | C | D | E
F | G | H | I | J
K | L | M | N | O
P | R | S | T
U | V | W | Y | Z

Aaron, Henry, 692

Abbott, Robert S., 443-44

ABC, 183, 630

Abernathy, Ralph, 543, 553, 554, 560

Ace, Goodman, 187

Acheson, Dean, 388, 390, 395, 397, 703, 722

on anti-Communists, 56, 58-59

background of, 10-11

Guatemalan policy and, 378, 379

Hiss affair and, 11-12, 15, 17-18

Korean War and, 62, 66, 70, 106

on Little Rock desegregation efforts, 686

on loss of China, 66-67

MacArthur and, 84, 109, 114

McCarthy and, 54

Mossadegh’s meeting with, 364

on Nixon-Kennedy debate, 732

nuclear weapons policy and, 36, 44, 45-46

Oppenheimer’s briefing of, 35

Truman’s relationship with, 21, 23, 24

Adams, Sherman, 210, 239, 310-11, 326, 623-24, 689

Adams, Tom, 490, 491

Adler, Julius Ochs, 383

Adler, Mortimer, 664

Adler, Stella, 269, 270

Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet, The, 509-11

advertising, 199, 224-27, 497-505, 644-46

by Chevrolet, 629-33

consumerism and, 505-6

political, 224-25

television spot, 225, 227

tobacco industry and, 502-4

Advertising Age, 628, 629

Agate, Betty, 169

Agate, Sandy, 169

Agee, James, 53

Agriculture Department, U.S., 169

Ailes, Roger, 314

Air Force, U.S., 25, 37-38, 71, 72, 330, 341, 616-17, 703, 704

Alabama Journal, 556

Aldrich, Winthrop, 505

Alfhem, 380, 382

alienation, 485, 527-28, 530

Allen, Fred, 180-86, 201

Allen, George, 234

Allen, Lee, 189

Alien, Steve, 477, 4...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Dedication
• Contents
• Preface
• ONE
• TWO
• THREE
• Image Gallery
• Author Interviews for The Fifties
• Bibliography
• Notes
• Index
• Author's Note
• A Biography of David Halberstam
• Copyright