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A portrait of a decade that transformed America and a broad review of social, political, economic, and cultural history of the century's most pivotal decade, the fifties, which is regarded as seminal in determining what the U.S. is today.
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Based on Pulitzer Prize-winning author David Halberstam's bestseller, this six-volume series takes an affectionate and revealing look at the decade that gave us Ozzie and Harriet and the Hula Hoop, Sputnik and Elvis and bobby-socks and the Kinsey Report. This collage of the people, music, memories, fads and issues that shaped the Baby Boomer generation captures the intense tapestry of optimism and fear, repression and discovery that was The Fifties.
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