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The Fifties
by Halberstam, David
- Used
- very good
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0679415599
- ISBN 13
- 9780679415596
- Seller
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Newport, Washington, United States
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About This Item
USA: Villard Books/Random House, 1993. First Trade Paperback Edition. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7. First Trade Paperback Edition in Very Good Condition. 28 pages of photographic illustrations on coated paper. Book is clean and unmarkedwith slight wear to cover edges. Soundly bound, tight & solid, square. Pages lightly toned, quite clean, no markings of any kind, no creases or tears. A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist provides our first panoramic view of the twentieth century's pivotal decade. The Fifties is a "sweeping social, political, economic, and cultural history of the ten years that David Halberstam regards as seminal in determining what our nation is today." 800 pages. 6 x 2 x 9.25 inches. Villard Books/Random House, New York, 1993.
Synopsis
"A sweeping social, political, economic, and cultural history of the ten years that David Halberstam regards as seminal in determining what our nation is today. It is the decade of Joe McCarthy and the young Martin Luther King, the Korean War and Levittown, Jack Kerouac and Elvis Presley."
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- Bookseller
- The Parnassus BookShop
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 026619
- Title
- The Fifties
- Author
- Halberstam, David
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Trade Paperback Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0679415599
- ISBN 13
- 9780679415596
- Publisher
- Villard Books/Random House
- Place of Publication
- USA
- Date Published
- 1993
- Size
- 8vo - over 7
- Keywords
- HISTORY, UNITED STATES SOCIAL CONDITIONS, AMERICA ECONOMIC ACHESON, DEAN BRANDO, MARLON CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT COLD WAR DULLES, ALLEN JOHN FOSTER EISENHOWER HOOVER, J. EDGAR KOREAN LITTLE ROCK MAC ARTHUR, DOUGLAS MC CARTHY, JOSEPH COMMUNISM OPPENHEIMER PRE
- X weight
- 0 oz
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