The Fifties - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Fifties write by James R. Gaines. This book was released on 2022-02-08. The Fifties available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Introduction: Seeing in the dark -- Gay rights: "To be nobody but yourself" -- Feminism: "Meet Jane Crow" -- Civil rights: The war after the wars -- Ecology: Before we knew -- Epilogue: The best of us.
The Fifties
The Fifties - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Fifties write by David Halberstam. This book was released on 2012-12-18. The Fifties available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This vivid New York Times bestseller about 1950s America from a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist is “an engrossing sail across a pivotal decade” (Time). 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.
New York in the Fifties
New York in the Fifties - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook New York in the Fifties write by Dan Wakefield. This book was released on 2011-03. New York in the Fifties available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Wakefield's memoir chronicles his move to New York City in the 1950s.
Paris in the Fifties
Paris in the Fifties - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Paris in the Fifties write by Stanley Karnow. This book was released on 2011-08-10. Paris in the Fifties available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In July 1947, fresh out of college and long before he would win the Pulitzer Prize and become known as one of America's finest historians, Stanley Karnow boarded a freighter bound for France, planning to stay for the summer. He stayed for ten years, first as a student and later as a correspondent for Time magazine. By the time he left, Karnow knew Paris so intimately that his French colleagues dubbed him "le plus parisien des Américains" --the most Parisian American. Now, Karnow returns to the France of his youth, perceptively and wittily illuminating a time and place like none other. Karnow came to France at a time when the French were striving to return to the life they had enjoyed before the devastation of World War II. Yet even during food shortages, political upheavals, and the struggle to come to terms with a world in which France was no longer the mighty power it had been, Paris remained a city of style, passion, and romance. Paris in the Fifties transports us to Latin Quarter cafés and basement jazz clubs, to unheated apartments and glorious ballrooms. We meet such prominent political figures as Charles de Gaulle and Pierre Mendès-France, as well as Communist hacks and the demagogic tax rebel Pierre Poujade. We get to know illustrious intellectuals, among them Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Albert Camus, and André Malraux, and visit the glittering salons where aristocrats with exquisite manners mingled with trendy novelists, poets, critics, artists, composers, playwrights, and actors. We meet Christian Dior, who taught Karnow the secrets of haute couture, and Prince Curnonsky, France's leading gourmet, who taught the young reporter to appreciate the complexities of haute cuisine. Karnow takes us to marathon murder trials in musty courtrooms, accompanies a group of tipsy wine connoisseurs on a tour of the Beaujolais vineyards, and recalls the famous automobile race at Le Mans when a catastrophic accident killed more than eighty spectators. Back in Paris, Karnow hung out with visiting celebrities like Ernest Hemingway, Orson Welles, and Audrey Hepburn, and in Paris in the Fifties we meet them too. A veteran reporter and historian, Karnow has written a vivid and delightful history of a charmed decade in the greatest city in the world.
The Fifties
The Fifties - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Fifties write by Mary Ellen Sterling. This book was released on 1998. The Fifties available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
