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The 50s : the story of a decade Cover Image Book Book

The 50s : the story of a decade

Finder, Henry, (editor.).

Summary: A look back at the 1950s chronicles the tensions and innovations that lay behind the decade's more placid surface during a time of prosperity and contradiction.

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  • ISBN: 9780679644811
  • ISBN: 0679644814
  • ISBN: 9780679644828 (ebook)
  • Physical Description: print
    xvii, 764 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Random House, [2015]

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Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references.
Formatted Contents Note: Part one. American scenes / a note by Elizabeth Kolbert. Success (on Jackie Robinson, V salesman) / John Graham and Rex Lardner -- Fallout (on radioactive debris) / Daniel Lang -- Ahab and nemesis (on Rocky Marciano vs. Archie Moore) / A.J. Liebling -- Mr. Hunter's grave (on a Staten Island cemetery) / Joseph Mitchell -- The cherubs are rumbling (on juvenile gangs) / Walter Bernstein --

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Subject: United States Civilization 1945-
Nineteen fifties

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24504. ‡aThe 50s : ‡bthe story of a decade / ‡cThe New Yorker ; edited by Henry Finder ; introduction by David Remnick.
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50500. ‡gPart one. ‡tAmerican scenes / ‡ra note by Elizabeth Kolbert. ‡tSuccess (on Jackie Robinson, V salesman) / ‡rJohn Graham and Rex Lardner -- ‡tFallout (on radioactive debris) / ‡rDaniel Lang -- ‡tAhab and nemesis (on Rocky Marciano vs. Archie Moore) / ‡rA.J. Liebling -- ‡tMr. Hunter's grave (on a Staten Island cemetery) / ‡rJoseph Mitchell -- ‡tThe cherubs are rumbling (on juvenile gangs) / ‡rWalter Bernstein --
50580. ‡gPart two. ‡tArtists & entertainers / ‡ra note by Rebecca Mead. ‡tThe perfect glow (on Oscar Hammerstein II) / ‡r(Philip Hamburger -- ‡tThrow the little old lady down the stairs! (on John Huston and the making of The red badge of courage) / ‡rLillian Ross -- ‡tHumility, concentration, and gusto (on Marianne Moore) / ‡rWinthrop Sargeant -- ‡tThe duke in his domain (on Marlon Brando in Kyoto) / ‡rTruman Capote -- ‡tA woman entering a taxi in the rain (on Richard Avedon) / ‡rWinthrop Sargeant --
50580. ‡gPart three. ‡tShifting grounds / ‡ra note by Jill Lepore. ‡tThe foolingh things of the world (on Dorothy Day) / ‡rDwight MacDonald -- ‡tNotes and comment (on the case against Senator McCarthy) / ‡rE.B. White -- ‡tThe psychosemanticist will see you now, Mr. Thurber (on fifties jargon) / ‡rJames Thurber -- ‡tA meeting in Atlanta (on the NAACP assembly) / ‡rBernard Taper -- ‡tLetter from Chicago (on the Democratic Convention) / ‡rRichard H. Rovere -- ‡tLetter from San Francisco (on the Republican Convention) / ‡rRichard Rovere -- ‡tLetter from Washington (on Eisenhower and Little Rock) / ‡rRichard H. Rovere --
50580. ‡gPart four. ‡tFar-flung / ‡ra note by Evan Osnos. ‡tNo one but the Glosters (on a Korean War battle) / ‡rE.J. Kahn, Jr. -- ‡tThe seventeenth of June (on an uprising in East Germany) / ‡rJoseph Wechsberg -- ‡tThe old boys (on Chiang Kai-Shek) / ‡rEmily Hahn -- ‡tLetters from Paris (on the Algerian War) / ‡rJanet Flanner -- ‡tLetter from Gaza (on refugees in the Strip) / ‡rA. J. Liebling -- ‡tCuban interlude (on Cuba and its rebels) / ‡rNorman Lewis --
50580. ‡gPart Five. ‡tTakes / ‡ra note by Malcolm Gladwell. ‡tCharacters. ‡tErnest Hemingway / ‡rLillian Ross -- ‡tJackson Pollock / ‡rBerton Roueché -- ‡tToots Shor / ‡rJohn Bainbridge -- ‡tHarold Ross / ‡rE.B. White -- ‡tSylvester Weaver / ‡rThomas Whiteside -- ‡tEmily Post / ‡rGeoffrey T. Hellman -- ‡tFrank Lloyd Wright / ‡rGeoffrey T. Hellman -- ‡tBobby Fischer / ‡rBernard Taper -- ‡tMort Sahl / ‡rWhitney Balliett -- ‡tLeonard Bernstein / ‡rRobert Rice -- ‡tLorraine Hansberry / ‡rLillian Ross. ‡tComputers. ‡tI.B.M.s new brain / ‡rJohn Brooks -- ‡tThe Nim machine / ‡rRex Lardner -- ‡tData processing systems / ‡rJohn Brooks -- ‡tElection results via Univac / ‡rPhilip Hamburger -- ‡tThe perceptron simulator / ‡rHarding Mason -- ‡tCurious developments. ‡tThe home freezer / ‡rBrendan Gill -- ‡tJazz class at Columbia / ‡rWhitney Balliett -- ‡tVaccinating against polio / ‡rJohn McNulty -- ‡tMarketing Miltown / ‡rThomas Whiteside -- ‡tRock 'n' roll's young enthusiasts / ‡rDwight MacDonald -- ‡tThe push-button phone / ‡rHarriet Ben Exra -- ‡tThe arrival of videotape / ‡rLouis P. Forster -- ‡tThe quiz-show scandals / ‡rJohn Updike --
50580. ‡gPart six. ‡tThe critics / ‡ra note by Adam Gopnik. ‡tBooks. ‡tThe vision of the innocent (on The catcher in the rye by J.D. Salinger / ‡rS.N. Behrman -- ‡tGreen on Doting (on Henry Green) / ‡rV. S. Pritchett -- ‡tBlack man's burden (on Invisible man by Ralph Ellison) / ‡rAnthony West -- ‡tThe book-of-the-millenium club (on Mortimer Adler's great books set) / ‡rDwight MacDonald -- ‡tDoctor life and his guardian angel (on Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak) / ‡rEdmund Wilson. ‡tThe current cinema. ‡tGood tough stuff (on On the waterfront) / ‡rJohn McCarten -- ‡tNo sanctuary (on The 400 blows) / ‡rJohn McCarten -- ‡tThe theatre. ‡tBouquets, brickbats, and obituaries (on Guys and dolls) / ‡rWolcott Gibbs -- ‡tSomething to remember us by (on Cat on a hot tin roof) / ‡rWolcott Gibbs -- ‡tBeep the meem (on Marcel Marceau) / ‡rWolcott Gibbs -- ‡tShaw with music (on My fair lady) / ‡rWolcott Gibbs -- ‡tPoints west (on A raisin in the sun) / ‡rKenneth Tynan -- ‡tCornucopia (on Gypsy) / ‡rKenneth Tynan -- ‡tTelevision. ‡tPeeping Funt (on Candid camera) / ‡rPhilip Hamburger -- ‡tBananas in general (on TV comedians) / ‡rJohn Lardner -- ‡tThoughts on Radio-Televese (on on-the-air language) / ‡rJohn Lardner -- ‡tArt & architecture. ‡tExtremeists (on Jackson Pollock et al.) / ‡rRobert M. Coates -- ‡tStyles and personalities (on an Abstract expressionism show) / ‡rRobert M. Coates -- ‡tThe mud wasps of Manhattan (on tall buildings gone wrong) / ‡rLewis Mumford -- ‡tThe roaring traffic's boom (on a congested metropolis) / ‡rLewis Mumford -- ‡tThe lesson of the master (on the Seagram building) / ‡rLewis Mumford -- ‡tMusic. ‡tJazz records (on Sonny Rollins and Thelonious Monk) / ‡rWhitney Balliett -- ‡tMan with a manner (on Glenn Gould at Carnegie Hall) / ‡rWinthrop Sargeant -- ‡tJazz records (on Coleman Hawkins) / ‡rWhitney Balliett --
50580. ‡gPart seven. ‡tPoetry / ‡ra note by Paul Muldoon. ‡tBoys at the window / ‡rRichard Wilbur -- ‡tFrau Bauman, Frau Schmidt, and Frau Schwartze / ‡rTheodore Roethke -- ‡tLove for a hand / ‡rKarl Shapiro -- ‡tThe artist / ‡rWilliam Carlos Williams -- ‡tLiving in sin / ‡rAdrienne Cecile Rich -- ‡tQuestions of travel / ‡rElizabeth Bishop -- ‡tSparrows / ‡rHayden Carruth -- ‡tFirst things first / ‡rW.H. Auden -- ‡tVoices from the other world / ‡rJames Merrill -- ‡tMussel hunter at Rock Harbor / ‡rSylvia Plath -- ‡tJust how low can a highbrow go when a highbrow lowers his brow? / ‡rOgden Nash -- ‡tThe arctic ox / ‡rMarianne Moore -- ‡tThe goodnight / ‡rLouis Simpson -- ‡tLying awake / ‡rW. D. Snodgrass -- ‡tThe road back / ‡rAnne Sexton --
50580. ‡gPart eight. ‡tFiction / ‡ra note by Jonathan Franzen. ‡tTaste / ‡rRoald Dahl -- ‡tNo place for you, my love / ‡rEudora Welty -- ‡tThe other Paris / ‡rMavis Gallant -- ‡tSix feet of the country / ‡rNadine Gordimer -- ‡tPnin / ‡rVladimir Nabokov -- ‡tThe state of grace / ‡rHarold Brodkey -- ‡tThe country husband / ‡rJohn Cheever -- ‡tThe happiest I've been / ‡rJohn Updike -- ‡tDefender of the faith / ‡rPhilip Roth.
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