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.A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
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