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America in the fifties /
Blessed by a booming economy, the United States experienced the benefits of technology in the 1950s, with television and theautomobile transforming the way people lived, and the space raceoffering new challenges. At the same time, the nation faceddomestic divisions and international crises that woul...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Syracuse, N.Y. :
Syracuse University Press,
2006.
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| Edición: | 1st ed. |
| Colección: | America in the twentieth century.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Origins : postwar America and the roots of the Fifties
- Fair deal to farewell : the domestic tribulations of Truman's second term
- The Korean War
- Liking Ike : domestic politics in Eisenhower's first term, 1953-1956
- The uneasy mantle of a major power : foreign policy, 1953-1956
- People of plenty : the transformation of American society
- Other Americans : the rights and plights of citizens
- The tube and the big screen : television and movies
- The nonconformist fifties : the arts and popular culture during the Cold War
- Foreign policy at the dawn of the Space Age, 1957-1960
- The end of the Ike age.