The 1950s /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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San Diego, CA :
Greenhaven Press,
2000.
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| Series: | America's decades.
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Table of Contents:
- The superbomb and American fears / by James T. Patterson
- The superpowers go to war in Korea / by Arthur S. Link and William B. Catton
- Building the hydrogen bomb / by Robert J. Donovan
- A Soviet view of the Cold War / by Vladislav Zubok and Constantine Pleshakov
- The CIA in Guatemala / by John Ranelagh
- The Rosenberg spy case / by Ronald Radosh and Joyce Milton
- The Cold War and McCarthyism / by Douglas T. Miller and Marion Nowak
- Learning to love the bomb / by Margot A. Henriksen
- Preparing for atomic war / by Susan Jonas and Marilyn Nissenson
- The death of Emmett Till / by Henry Hampton and Steve Fayer
- The Montgomery bus boycott / by Rosa Parks, with Gregory J. Reed
- High school integration in Little Rock / by Juan Williams
- Moving to the suburbs on the G.I. Bill / by William L. O'Neill
- Teen time in America / by J. Ronald Oakley
- "Fitting in" for fifties women / by Brett Harvey
- V-8 powered chariots of fire / by Karal Ann Marling
- A day in the life of a 1954 TV viewer / by Richard D. Heldenfels
- The birth of rock and roll / by Adam Woog
- Beat poets give birth to the hippie movement / by Andrew Jamison and Ron Eyeman
- The roots of sixties protest / by Terry H. Anderson
- The youthful idealism of John F. Kennedy signaled the end of the 1950s / by Peter Joseph
- The origins of environmental awareness / by Rachel Carson.