The Fifties (book)
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The Fifties is a history book by David Halberstam centered on the decade of the 1950s in the United States.
First edition
The history of the United States from 1945 to 1964 was a time of high economic growth and general prosperity. It was also a time of confrontation as the capitalist United States and its allies politic
The Fifties (book)
…The Fifties (1993) is a history book by David Halberstam centered on the decade of the 1950s in the United States. Rather than using a straightforward linear narrative, Halberstam separately profiles many of the notable trends and people of the post-war era, starting…
Martin Luther King, Jr. leads civil rights protestors during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, August 28, 1963. The 1950s and 1960s were a time of major social and political changes in the United States.
Gen. MacArthur, UN Command CiC (seated), observes the naval shelling of Incheon from the USS Mt. McKinley, 15 September 1950.
A 1947 booklet published by the Catholic Catechetical Guild Educational Society raising the specter of a Communist takeover
Eisenhower and Gamal Abdel Nasser in New York, 1960