The Fifties

Halberstam, David

ISBN 10: 0449909336 / ISBN 13: 9780449909331

Edité par Ballantine Books, 1994

Signed Copy . Inscribed by author on title page. Writing inside. Highlighting inside. N° de réf. du vendeur N11OS-00464

Synopsis :

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 age: 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.

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À propos de l?auteur: David Halberstam was a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and the author of numerous books, including The Best and the Brightest, The Powers That Be, The Reckoning, Summer of '49, Playing for Keeps, and War in a Time of Peace. He died in April 2007.

Détails bibliographiques

Titre : The Fifties
Éditeur : Ballantine Books
Date d'édition : 1994
Reliure : Couverture souple
Etat : Fair
Signé : Signé par l'auteur