The Fifties Kindle Edition To download now please click the link below: thefifties.dazzlingoffer.com Exuberant and ambitious, The Fifties delves into a decade that remains a monumental and lasting turning point in American history. Joe McCarthy. Marilyn Monroe. The H-bomb. Ozzie and Harriet. Elvis. Civil rights. It’s undeniable: The fifties were a defining decade for America, complete with sweeping cultural change and political upheaval. This decade is also the focus of David Halberstam’s triumphant The Fifties, which stands as an enduring classic and was an instant New York Times bestseller upon its publication. More than a survey of the decade, it is a masterfully woven examination of far-reaching change, from the unexpected popularity of Holiday Inn to the marketing savvy behind McDonald’s expansion. A meditation on the staggering influence of image and rhetoric, The Fifties is vintage Halberstam, who was hailed by the Denver Post as “a lively, graceful writer who makes you . . . understand how much of our time was born in those years.” This ebook features an extended biography of David Halberstam.
Reviews “In a manner that reminds one of a good novel, the author portrays this period for what it was; the transition between 'the good old days' and the liberating thoughts and actions of the 60s. Having lived my childhood during this period I, personally, was interested in what occurred during this time. From Betty Furness to Nikata Khruschev, the 50s are described in a lengthy but highly readable manner. This is not the propagandized governmental version that history books instruct us with. Instead, it is the events that occurred behind the political smokescreens of the times. Our CIA covert actions, the ever-changing car models, the mistaken failure in the arms race, Gary Power's embarrassing capture, the stoney faced Ed Sullivan, Faubus's agenda behind the support of continued segregation, the orchestrated rise of ML King, the Dulles brothers and their influence, and the eventual end of McCarthy's and MacArthur's influence on society. In sum, it is a 5 star, highly recommended read.” ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
“From all I can gather, this is the finest book about American culture in the 1950s--a fascinating period because it links earlier American history to modern times better than any other decade. Nobody should be intimidated by this book's length (about 730 pages). It is made up of many short sketches, and the whole story is told with so much intelligence that it is highly readable. I virtually never take on big books; I just lack the discipline for them. This one, for me, was about a week of highly pleasurable reading. It was, to use a phrase from other literary genres, a "page-turner" for me. I came away from it with one disappointment. I would like to have been given more analysis of the
Fifties than Halberstam delivers. His focus on major figures from the decade works to keep the book lively, but he rarely takes on major issues of why the decade developed as it did. For example, I'm confused by the degree to which Americans in the 50s were so paranoid about communism. Having just defeated the Third Reich and Japan, this nation was clearly the world's supreme super power, and yet the politics of the 50s were driven by fear to a remarkable degree. Halberstam is intelligent and occasionally analytical, but he works from individual stories upward to the larger whole rather than giving us larger patterns that are reflected by the major players of that era. I'm not sure that is a fault. Given the choice of a book of individual stories or a book whose attention to individuals is to prove a thesis, I would clearly prefer Halberstam's relaxed, colorful, storytelling approach. Maybe I'm saying that reading this book makes me hungry for another book that would be more about the forest and less about the trees. I am recommending this to all of my friends. I recommend it to you.�
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