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HALBERSTAM, DAVID The Fifties
New York, Villard Books. 1993. (ISBN: 0679415599) Hard Cover with dust jacket, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. xi, 800 pp. illus. biblio. index; 25 cm. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Spine slightly rolled at the crown. Dust jacket protected in an mylar book cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/air, except by special arrangement. "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." - Publisher. Very Good/Fine.
Offered for US$ 15.00 by: Left Coast Books - Book number: 006849
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