Blessed by a booming economy, the United States moved into the
space age and the golden age of television in the 1950s. At the
same time, the nation faced domestic and international divisions
that would have far-reaching historical and political consequences.
The 1950s evoke images of prosperity, suburbia, a smiling President
Eisenhower, cars with elaborate tail fins, Elvis Presley, Marilyn
Monroe, and the ""golden age"" of television - seemingly a simpler
time in which the idealized family life of situation comedies had
at least some basis in reality. A closer examination, however,
recalls more threatening images: the hysteria of McCarthyism, the
shadow of the atomic bomb, war in Korea, the Soviet threat
manifested in the launch of Sputnik and the bombast of Nikita
Khrushchev, and a clash over the integration of a high school in
Little Rock. Andrew J. Dunar successfully shows how the issues
confronted America in the late twentieth century have roots in the
fifties, some apparent at the time, others only in retrospect:
civil rights, environmentalism, the counterculture, and
""movements"" on behalf of women, Chicanos, and Native Americans.
The rise of the ""beats,"" the continuing development of jazz, the
emergence of rock 'n roll, and the art of Jackson Pollock reveal
the decade to be less conformist than commonly portrayed. While the
Cold War rivalry with the Soviet Union generated the most concern,
Dunar skillfully illustrates how the rise of Nasser in Egypt,
Castro in Cuba, and Communist regimes in North Korea, Vietnam, and
China signaled new regional challenges to American power. This book
will be ideal for instructors of American history survey courses at
the high school and undergraduate levels.
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