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Forgotten Fifties : America's Decade from the Archives of LOOK Magazine James Conaway

Forgotten Fifties : America's Decade from the Archives of LOOK Magazine By James Conaway

Forgotten Fifties : America's Decade from the Archives of LOOK Magazine by James Conaway


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From the pages of Look, the magazine that defined the fifties, comes a photographic portrayal of the dynamic era that sparked a transformation in America's political and cultural identity.

Forgotten Fifties : America's Decade from the Archives of LOOK Magazine Summary

Forgotten Fifties : America's Decade from the Archives of LOOK Magazine by James Conaway

From the pages of Look, the magazine that defined the fifties, comes a photographic portrayal of the dynamic era that sparked a transformation in America's political and cultural identity. From the Red Scare incited by Joseph McCarthy to the election of John F. Kennedy as president in 1960, the 1950s heralded some of the most striking and clashing aspects of twentieth-century America: the Korean War and I Love Lucy; the Bunny Hop and Brown v. Board of Education; bikinis and UFOs; Disneyland and the polio vaccine; Elvis and Allen Ginsberg; the Invisible Man and Roman Holiday; Marilyn Monroe and Jackie Kennedy. The evocative images in this volume-many never before published-chart a contradictory decade, transcending what we have come to know as the age of Ozzie and Harriet. Provocative and endearing, best-selling journalist James Conaway's entertaining and highly readable year-by-year survey will resonate with a generation that came of age in the 1950s but also prove compelling to younger audiences who identify with that hopeful yet uneasy epoch.

About James Conaway

James Conaway is the author of nine books of nonfiction, among them Memphis Afternoons and Napa: The Story of an American Eden, and several novels, including Nose and The Big Easy. Alan Brinkley is the Allan Nevins Professor of History at Columbia University. His books include The Publisher: Henry Luce and His American Century.

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NGR9780847843732
9780847843732
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Forgotten Fifties : America's Decade from the Archives of LOOK Magazine by James Conaway
New
Hardback
Rizzoli International Publications
2014-08-26
240
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