Another Part of the Fifties - Carter, Paul Allen

Another Part of the Fifties by Carter, Paul Allen

Format: Hardcover with Dust Jacket

Published by Columbia University Press, 1983

"The fifties, merely a confused prelude to the grandeur of Camelot, or a decade with an identify all its own? A period of determined ant-intellectualism and stagnation, or an era of thoughtful rationalism that left behind a legacy of humanity and hope? Another part of the fifties rescues this much maligned decade from the oblivion to which it has undeservedly been consigned. Far from being stagnant, Paul Carter argues, the fifties had a richness, both political and cultural, that we are only now beginning to appreciate. He draws on a wide range of sources, from formal United Nations documents to science fiction magazines, from the Wall Street Journal to the New Left journal Dissent, from the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientist to newspaper sports pages, from Mary McCarthy to Dr. Seuss. Paul Carter has ably re-created the spirit of the decade and what was, for most people, a period removed from the hardships and complexities of the decades that have followed."--Back cover.

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