- Politics and government, Social life and customs, Economic conditions, Popular culture
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.
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- earnestironic
- intimateepic
- classical in formformally daring
- cooloverwhelming
- gravecomic
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- Author
- David Halberstam
- First published
- 1993
- Pages
- 808
- Publisher
- Random House Value Publishing, Ballantine Books, Random House Large Print in association with Villard Books
- Editions
- 7
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780679415596
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“In the beginning, that era was dominated by the shadow of a man no longer there-Franklin D. Roosevelt.”
David Halberstam was an American journalist and historian, known for his work on the Vietnam War, politics, history, the Civil Rights Movement, business, media, American culture, and later, sports journalism. He won a Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting in 1964. In 2007, while doing research for a book, Halberstam was killed in a car crash. - Wikipedia
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