The 50s : the story of a decade
Book |
First edition. |
Random House,
New York :
c2015.
- 1 of 1 Copy Available at Libraries in Niagara Cooperative
- 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
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About
"The 1950s are enshrined in the popular imagination as the decade of poodle skirts and "I Like Ike." But this was also a complex time, in which the afterglow of Total Victory firmly gave way to Cold War paranoia. A sense of trepidation grew with the Suez Crisis and the H-bomb tests. At the same time, the fifties marked the cultural emergence of extraordinary new energies, like those of Thelonious Monk, Sylvia Plath, and Tennessee Williams. The New Yorker was there in real time, chronicling the tensions and innovations that lay beneath the era's placid surface. In this thrilling volume, classic works of reportage, criticism, and fiction are complemented by new contributions from the magazine's present all-star lineup of writers, including Jonathan Franzen, Malcolm Gladwell, and Jill Lepore."--Amazon.com
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Details
- ISBN: 9780679644811
- Physical Description: xvii, 764 pages : illustrationsprint
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Random House, c2015.
- Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references.
- Formatted Contents Note: Part one. American scenes -- Part two. Artists & entertainers -- Part three. Shifting grounds -- Part four. Far-flung -- Part five. Takes. Characters ; Computers ; Curious developments -- Part six. The critics. Books ; The current cinema ; The theatre ; Television ; Art & architecture ; Music -- Part seven. Poetry -- Part eight. Fiction.