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Author : John C. Super
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Fifties in America written by John C. Super and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Surveys the events and people of the United States and Canada from 1950 through 1959.
Author : Martha Saxton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)
Download or read book Jayne Mansfield and the American Fifties written by Martha Saxton and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biography of Jayne Mansfield; 24 Illustrations.
Author : Andrew J. Dunar
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780815631033
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)
Download or read book America in the Fifties written by Andrew J. Dunar and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 2006-11-07 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 1950s evoke images of prosperity, suburbia, a smiling President Eisenhower, cars with elaborate tail fins, Elvis Presley, Marilyn Monroe, and the “golden age” of television—seemingly a simpler time in which the idealized family life of situation comedies had at least some basis in reality. A closer examination, however,recalls more threatening images: the hysteria of McCarthy-ism, the shadow of the atomic bomb, war in Korea, the Soviet threat manifested in the launch of Sputnik and the bombast of Nikita Khruschchev, and clashes over the integration of public buses in Montgomery, Alabama, and a high school in Little Rock, Arkansas. Andrew J. Dunar successfully shows how the issues confronting America in the late twentieth century have roots in the fifties, some apparent at the time, others only in retrospect: civil rights, environmentalism, the counterculture, and “movements” on behalf of women, Chicanos, and Native Americans. The rise of the “Beats,” the continuing development of jazz, the emergence of rock ’n’ roll, and the art of Jackson Pollock reveal the decade to be less conformist than commonly portrayed. While the cold war rivalry with the Soviet Union generated the most concern, Dunar skillfully illustrates how the rise of Nasser in Egypt, Castro in Cuba, and Communist regimes in North Korea, Vietnam, and China signaled new regional challenges to American power.
Author : Fredrika Bremer
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.5J/5 ( download)
Download or read book America of the Fifties written by Fredrika Bremer and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Fredrika Bremer
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)
Download or read book America of the Fifties written by Fredrika Bremer and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Edmund Lindop
Publisher : Twenty-First Century Books
ISBN 13 : 0822576422
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)
Download or read book America in the 1950s written by Edmund Lindop and published by Twenty-First Century Books. This book was released on 2009-09-01 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Outlines the important social, political, economic, cultural, and technological events that happened in the United States from 1950 to 1959.
Author : Fredrika Bremer
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)
Download or read book America of the Fifties written by Fredrika Bremer and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James R. Gaines
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439101647
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Fifties written by James R. Gaines and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2023-02-07 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An “exciting and enlightening revisionist history” (Walter Isaacson, #1 New York Times bestselling author) that upends the myth of the 1950s as a decade of conformity and celebrates a few solitary, brave, and stubborn individuals who pioneered the radical gay rights, feminist, civil rights, and environmental movements, from historian James R. Gaines. An “enchanting, beautifully written book about heroes and the dark times to which they refused to surrender” (Todd Gitlin, bestselling author of The Sixties). In a series of character portraits, The Fifties invokes the accidental radicals—people motivated not by politics but by their own most intimate conflicts—who sparked movements for change in their time and our own. Among many others, we meet legal pathfinder Pauli Murray, who was tortured by both her mixed-race heritage and her “in between” sexuality. Through years of hard work and self-examination, she turned her demons into historic victories. Ruth Bader Ginsburg credited her for the argument that made sex discrimination unconstitutional, but that was only one of her gifts to the 21st-century feminism. We meet Harry Hay, who dreamed of a national gay rights movement as early as the mid-1940s, a time when the US, Soviet Union, and Nazi Germany viewed gay people as subversives and mentally ill. And in perhaps the book’s unlikeliest pairing, we hear the prophetic voices of Silent Spring’s Rachel Carson and MIT’s preeminent mathematician, Norbert Wiener, who from their very different perspectives—she is in the living world, he in the theoretical one—converged on the then-heretical idea that our mastery over the natural world carried the potential for disaster. Their legacy is the environmental movement. The Fifties is an “inspiration…[and] a reminder of the hard work and personal sacrifice that went into fighting for the constitutional rights of gay people, Blacks, and women, as well as for environmental protection” (The Washington Post). The book carries the powerful message that change begins not in mass movements and new legislation but in the lives of the decentered, often lonely individuals, who learn to fight for change in a daily struggle with themselves.
Author : Nancy Hendricks
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 144086442X
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)
Download or read book Daily Life in 1950s America written by Nancy Hendricks and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2019-02-22 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Placing the era firmly within the American experience, this reference illuminates what daily life was really like in the 1950s, including for people from the "Other America"—those outside the prosperous, white middle class. 'Daily Life in 1950s America shows that the era was anything but uneventful. Apart from revolutionary changes during the decade itself, it was in the 1950s that the seeds took root for the social turmoil of the 1960s and the technological world of today. The book's interdisciplinary format looks at the domestic, economic, intellectual, material, political, recreational, and religious life of average Americans. Readers can look at sections separately according to their interests or classroom assignment, or can read them as an ongoing narrative. By entering the homes of average Americans, far from the corridors of power, we can make sense of the 1950s and see how the headlines of the era translated into their daily lives. This readable and informative book is ideal for anyone interested in this formative decade in American life. Well-researched factual material is presented in an engaging way, along with lively sidebars to humanize each section. It is unique in blending the history, popular culture, and sociology of American daily life, including those of Americans who were not white, middle class, and prosperous.
Author : Andrew J. Dunar
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780815631286
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)
Download or read book America in the Fifties written by Andrew J. Dunar and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 2006-11-07 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Blessed by a booming economy, the United States experienced the benefits of technology in the 1950s, with television and the automobile transforming the way people lived, and the space race offering new challenges. At the same time, the nation faced domestic divisions and international crises that would have far-reaching historical and political consequences. The 1950s evoke images of prosperity, suburbia, a smiling President Eisenhower, cars with elaborate tail fins, Elvis Presley, Marilyn Monroe, and the "golden age" of television-seemingly a simpler time in which the idealized family life of situation comedies had at least some basis in reality. A closer examination, however, recalls more threatening images: the hysteria of McCarthyism, the shadow of the atomic bomb, war in Korea, the Soviet threat manifested in the launch of Sputnik and the bombast of Nikita Khrushchev, and a clash over the integration of public buses in Montgomery, Alabama, and a high school in Little Rock, Arkansas. Andrew J. Dunar successfully shows how the issues confronting America in the late twentieth century have roots in the fifties, some apparent at the time, others only in retrospect: civil rights, environmentalism, the counterculture, and "movements" on behalf of women, Latinos, and Native Americans. The rise of the "beats," the continuing development of jazz, the emergence of rock ‘n’ roll, and the art of Jackson Pollock reveal the decade to be less conformist than commonly portrayed. While the cold war rivalry with the Soviet Union generated the most concern, Dunar skillfully illustrates how the rise of Nasser in Egypt, Castro in Cuba, and Communist regimes in North Korea, Vietnam, and China signaled new regional challenges to American power. This book will be ideal for instructors of American history survey courses at the high school and undergraduate levels.
