The Fifties in America

The Fifties in America
ISBN-10
158765203X
ISBN-13
9781587652035
Category
History / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)
Pages
1107
Language
English
Published
2005
Publisher
Salem Press
Author
John C. Super

Description

The Fifties in America surveys the events and people of all of North America during the 1950's. This three-volume publication, Salem Press's second reference set on a twentieth century decade, is modeled on the award-winning The Sixties in America (1999). The 1950's are often portrayed as an uneventful era in North American history - a period of political and cultural conservatism. The decade was in fact a period of political turbulence, mounting world conflict, and cultural change. The 1950's experienced the Cold War, McCarthyism and a trend toward the suppression of civil liberties.

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