The Fifties in America
- ISBN-10
- 1587652056
- ISBN-13
- 9781587652059
- 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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