"A bold and original argument that upends the myth of the Fifties as a decade of conformity to celebrate the solitary, brave, and stubborn individuals who pioneered the radical gay rights, feminist, civil rights, and environmental movements ...
CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE The section on Elvis Presley is based on a number of books, including biographies by Albert Goldman; Elaine Dundy; Steve Dunleavy; Dee Presley, Rich Stanley, and David Stanley; Stanley Booth; Kevin Quain; Larry Geller ...
By 1952, with the Korean War in full swing, Tyler gave in to her father's pressure and to her own homesickness. ... I don't think I really thought I loved Frank—I'm not sure I even asked myself the question.
Early in 1955 , Democratic defenders of the TVA in the Senate learned of an apparent irregularity in the negotiations that led to the federal contract with Dixon - Yates . An officer in the bank that arranged financing for DixonYates ...
Paris in the Fifties transports us to Latin Quarter cafés and basement jazz clubs, to unheated apartments and glorious ballrooms.
The Fifties in America surveys the events and people of all of North America during the 1950's. This three-volume publication, Salem Press's second reference set on a twentieth century decade,...
The 1950's in America.
... Mighty Minutes : An Illustrated History of Television's Best Commercials ( New York : Harmony Books , 1984 ) , 38–68 . 12. Hill , Advertising to the American Woman , 215 . 13. Hall , Mighty Minutes , 193–211 . 14. Karal Ann Marling , As ...
LAWSON: Mr. Chairman, I have a statement here which I wish to make— THE CHAIRMAN: Well, all right, let me see your statement. (Statement handed to the Chairman.) THE CHAIRMAN: I don't care to read any more of the statement.
Outlines life in the United States in the 1950s, including the development of suburbia, advances in technology and entertainment, politics, the space race, and the Cold War.