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Author:

Schwartz, Richard Alan, 1951-

Title:

The 1950s / Richard A. Schwartz.

Publisher:

Facts On File,

Copyright Date:

c2003

Description:

vii, 504 p. : ill., maps ; 29 cm.

Subject:

Nineteen fifties.--Juvenile literature.--Juvenile literature.
Nineteen fifties.
United States--Civilization--1945---Juvenile literature.--Juvenile literature.
United States--History--1945-1953.--Juvenile literature.--Juvenile literature.
United States--History--1953-1961--Juvenile literature.--Juvenile literature.
United States--Civilization--1945-
United States--History--1945-1953.
United States--History--1953-1961

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 471-488) and index.

Contents:

Introduction -- Postwar prelude: 1945-1949 -- America becomes the world's policeman: 1950 -- The Cold War settles in: 1951 -- "I like Ike": 1952 -- New leadership in Washington and Moscow: 1953 -- Separate is not equal: 1954 -- Self-created annihilation becomes a possibility: 1955 -- Ike and Elvis, Budapest and the Suez: 1956 -- Sputnik and Little Rock: 1957 -- America enters outer space: 1958 -- America expands into the Pacific: 1959.

Series:

An Eyewitness history

ISBN:

9780816045976 (alk. paper)
0816045976 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)49029237

LCCN:

2002001149

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

SOAX911 -- Simpson College - Dunn Library (Indianola)

GDPF771 -- Urbandale Public Library (Urbandale)

PQAX094 -- Wartburg College - Vogel Library (Waverly)

GEPG771 -- West Des Moines Public Library (West Des Moines)