The Fifties
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The Fifties
By David Halberstam451. “THE Los ALAMos LABoratoRY: Davis, Lawrence and Oppenheimer, p. 316. while A Room Full of PROMINENT: Stern, p. 447. FRIENDs HEARD THEIR YouNG DAUGHTER: Stern, p. 378. It was one of THE Most compleTE: Coffey, Iron Eagle, p. 165.
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The Fifties
By Mary Ellen SterlingAmerican Parry O'Brien broke a record in the shot put when he tossed an iron ball more than 60 feet (18.3m). ... Althea Gibson became the first black invited to compete in the United States Lawn Tennis Association's National ...
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The Fifties: A Women's Oral History
By Brett HarveyBy 1952, with the Korean War in full swing, Tyler gave in to her father's pressure and to her own homesickness. ... I don't think I really thought I loved Frank—I'm not sure I even asked myself the question.
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The Fifties
By David HalberstamCHAPTER THIRTY-ONE The section on Elvis Presley is based on a number of books, including biographies by Albert Goldman; Elaine Dundy; Steve Dunleavy; Dee Presley, Rich Stanley, and David Stanley; Stanley Booth; Kevin Quain; Larry Geller ...
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The Fifties: The Way We Really Were
By Douglas T. Miller, Marion NowakCole's show was canceled . 30 A ballad singer , Cole could only have been a moderating presence on television : his style was so very far removed from emotional or cultural extremes . Eliminating his program was certainly a case of ...
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The Fifties
By Gareth ThomasThe Fifties
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The Fifties: An Underground History
By James R. GainesThe book carries the powerful message that change actually begins not in mass movements and new legislation but in the lives of de-centered, often lonely individuals, who learn to fight for change in a daily struggle with themselves.
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The Fifties
By David HalberstamExamines the social, political, economic, and cultural history of the 1950s
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The Fifties: An Underground History
By James R. GainesIntroduction: Seeing in the dark -- Gay rights: "To be nobody but yourself" -- Feminism: "Meet Jane Crow" -- Civil rights: The war after the wars -- Ecology: Before we knew -- Epilogue: The best of us.
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The Fifties
By Peter LewisFrom the publisher: This is an attempt to chronicle the decade which began with postwar austerity, saw the exploding of the H-bomb, the popularization of television and the emergence of...
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The Fifties
By Peter LewisThe Fifties
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The Fifties: Photographs of America
By Eve ArnoldA collection of black & white photographs showing life in the US during the decade of the 1950's.
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The Fifties: Photographs of America
By Inc. Staff, Eve Arnold, Magnum PhotosA collection of black & white photographs showing life in the US during the decade of the 1950's.
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The Fifties: From Notebooks and Diaries of the Period
By Edmund WilsonEdmund Wilson's The Fifties, edited by Leon Edel, is the highly acclaimed fourth volume in the series that began with The Twenties.
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The Fifties: From Notebooks and Diaries of the Period
By Edmund Wilson... novelist. 4. Katherine Raine, poet and critic, who wrote Blake and Tradition (1968). William Empson, poet and critic, author of Seven Types of Ambiguity (1930). 5. The English ... essays, and novels. The Sitwells were much lionized during ...
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The Fifties: An Underground History
By James R. Gaines"A bold and original argument that upends the myth of the Fifties as a decade of conformity to celebrate the solitary, brave, and stubborn individuals who pioneered the radical gay rights, feminist, civil rights, and environmental movements ...