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Sto caricando le informazioni... God's Country: America in the 50'sdi J.Ronald Oakley
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. This is perhaps my favorite history book, and one I came to know thanks to IASMH's excellent class, "Decades Of Controversy." It deals with America in the 1950s: the politics, the social movements, the wars, presidents, scandals, fads, music, gender relations, race relations--you name it, Oakley has a chapter devoted to it. Better yet, he is remarkably unbiased and objective in his treatment of these issues whilst simultaneously maintaining an engaging and entertaining tone. Oakley's organization of the material is also quite intelligent: he elected to treat each theme in a separate chapter instead of a strictly chronological run through of the entire decade. This treatment, far from compartmentalizing these topics, allows Oakley to deal with them in a clear, logical fashion. Better yet, he manages to ground each topic in the larger framework of the decade without being unnecessarily repetative. My only complaint is that he seems to have vanished into the ether after penning this book (My work here is done?), and I wish he'd written some others. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
Nostalgia for the fifties depicts it as a golden time: Ike in the White House, peace and prosperity, jobs, education, and the good things in life for all. But it wasn't only "happy times" and Hula Hoops. We built the H-bomb. Sputnik rocketed us into the Space Age. We fought the Korean War and the Cold War. At home we had the Red Scare and McCarthyism, Little Rock and Montgomery, the Beatniks and the generation gap. Here is a panorama that highlights important trends, colorful personalities, and the popular mass culture of the decade. This portrait of America in the fifties does not neglect foreign affairs, but it concentrates on major domestic events and on social and cultural history, particularly the television shows, movies, sports, books, music, fashions, customs, fads, and follies of the day. It also emphasizes people, devoting several chapters to Presidents Truman and Eisenhower and substantial sections to Joe McCarthy, Douglas MacArthur, Richard Nixon, John F. Kennedy, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, Martin Luther King, Jr., James Dean, Elvis Presley, Marilyn Monroe, and other luminaries of the time. And it devotes special attention to blacks, women, and the young, three groups whose impact on the nation's history increased steadily as the decade progressed. This fresh look at America in the fifties captures the era for those who lived it--and brings it to life for those who came later.--Adapted from book jacket. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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