The Fifties, David Halberstam
The Fifties, David Halberstam
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The Fifties

Author: David Halberstam

Narrator: Robertson Dean

Unabridged: 34 hr 44 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/04/2018

Synopsis

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.

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About The Author

David Halberstam was a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and the author of numerous books, including The Best and the Brightest, The Powers That Be, The Reckoning, Summer of '49, Playing for Keeps, and War in a Time of Peace. He died in April 2007.Robertson Dean has acted on- and off-Broadway and in many leading roles at regional theaters throughout the United States. His film work includes Star Trek: Nemesis and Vanilla Sky.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Joseph on January 17, 2022

As I look back on the previous year (2021), I put a list together of the books that for some reason Highly impressed me. The book I found most enjoyable to read was Pete Hamill's "North River." The novel I thought was closest to perfection was Ann Patchett's, 'The Magician's Assistant." I doubt Ms. P......more

Goodreads review by Erik on April 22, 2011

Everything I've ever read by David Halberstam has been rewarding and everything, except his early and probably most important book, The Best and the Brightest, has been a sheer pleasure. The Best and the Brightest reads most like an academic history. His other history books are more popular in their......more

Goodreads review by Clif on December 27, 2023

I've wanted to read this book ever since it was published in 1993, but I was daunted by its over 600 pages which I knew would take a chunk of time. Now that I've finished it I feel like I've checked an item off my bucket list. I was aged 4 to 14 during the fifties, and though I was living a sheltere......more

Goodreads review by Carol on October 30, 2017

Halberstam writes like a fuddy-duddy who has no respect for Elvis Presley, or James Dean, or for anything connected with the glory days of early rock and roll. On the other hand, there's some fascinating information about the early space program, in America and the USSR, the birth of the Civil Right......more

Goodreads review by Jim on May 20, 2019

A interesting look at the ups and downs of the Fifties.......more

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