Halberstam, The Fifties (1993)

David Halberstam.
The Fifties.
New York: Villard Books (Random House), 1993.

Book Information: Publisher; Wikipedia; Google Books; Amazon.com.

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Author Information:

• David Halberstam (1934 – 2007), Wikipedia.
• Clyde Haberman, "David Halberstam, 73, Reporter and Author, Dies," The New York Times, 24 April 2007.
• David Halberstam, "The History Boys," Vanity Fair, August 2007.
• David Halberstam, Author, Penguin Random House.
• David Halberstam, Hachette Book Group.
• David Halberstam, Simon & Schuster.
• David Halberstam, C-SPAN.org.
• David Halberstam. The Making of a Quagmire. New York: Random House, 1965. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2007.
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• David Halberstam. The Best and the Brightest. New York: Random House, 1972.
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• David Halberstam. The Powers That Be. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1975. Champaign, Illinois: University of Illinois Press, 2000.
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• David Halberstam. The Amateurs: The Story of Four Young Men and Their Quest for an Olympic Gold Medal. New York: William Morrow & Co, 1985. New York: Ballantine Books (Random House), 1996.
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• David Halberstam. The Reckoning. New York: William Morrow & Co, 1986. Open Road Media, 2012.
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• David Halberstam. Summer of '49. New York: William Morrow & Co, 1989. New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 2006. Open Road Media, 2012.
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• David Halberstam. October 1964. New York: Villard Books (Random House), 1993.
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• David Halberstam. The Children. New York: Random House, 1998.
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• David Halberstam. War in a Time of Peace: Bush, Clinton, and the Generals. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2001.
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• David Halberstam. The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War. New York: Hyperion Books (Hachette Book Group), 2007.
  [Publisher; Wikipedia; Google Books; Amazon.com.]

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Video: David Halberstam

• David Halberstam and Brian Lamb, "The Fifties," Booknotes, C-SPAN.org, 11 July 1993.
  (Brian Lamb complains about the lack of a Table of Contents for the book. My copy of the second printing of the hardcover edition also lacks a Table of Contents. But for a detailed Table of Contents see Halberstam, The Fifties (1993) - Table of Contents.)
• David Halberstam, David McCullough, George Will, Brian Lamb, "Political Historians' Roundtable," Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, D.C., C-SPAN.org, 22 June 1994.
  • Folger Shakespeare Library.
  • Henry Clay Folger (1857 – 1930), Wikipedia.
  • David McCullough. Truman. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1992.
    [Publisher; Wikipedia; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
    My post on Truman is here.
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  • George F. Will. Restoration: Congress, Term Limits and the Recovery of Deliberative Democracy. New York: Free Press, 1992.
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  • Cecil Woodham-Smith. The Reason Why: The Story of the Fatal Charge of the Light Brigade. London: Constable, 1953. London: Penguin Books, 1991.
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• Alex Kozinski, David Garrow, David Halberstam, Anthony Lewis, David Cook [Cook reads the remarks of William J. Brennan Jr.], "The Warren Court," College of Law, University of Tulsa, C-SPAN.org, 13 October 1994.
  (Halberstam's talk begin at time 1:13:30.)
  • College of Law, University of Tulsa.
  • Warren Court, October 1953 – June 1969, Wikipedia.
  • Brown v. Board of Education, 1954, Wikipedia.
  • Baker v. Carr, 1962, Wikipedia.
  • Griswold v. Connecticut, 1965, Wikipedia.
  • Alex Kozinski (b. 1950), Wikipedia.
  • David Garrow (b. 1953), Wikipedia.
  • David J. Garrow, davidgarrow.com.
  • David J. Garrow. Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. New York: William Morrow, 1986. New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 2004.
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  • David J. Garrow. Liberty and Sexuality: The Right to Privacy and the Making of Roe v. Wade. New York: Macmillan, 1994. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998.
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  • David J. Garrow. Rising Star: The Making of Barack Obama. New York: HarperCollins, 2017.
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• David Halberstam, "America: The Last 50 Years," George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, C-SPAN.org, 01 February 1995.
• David Halberstam and Susan Swain, "In Depth with David Halberstam," BookTV, C-SPAN.org, 04 November 2001.
• David Halberstam, "The War on Terrorism," PricewaterhouseCoopers Endowment, Washington, D.C., C-SPAN.org, 05 December 2001.
• Joyce O. Appleby, James MacGregor Burns, John W. Dean, David Halberstam, "The President and His Enemies," Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, C-SPAN.org, 20 November 2004.
  • Joyce Appleby (1929 – 2016), Wikipedia.
  • James MacGregor Burns (1918 – 2014), Wikipedia.
  • John Dean (b. 1938), Wikipedia.
• David Halberstam, "America Then and Now," Westminster Town Hall Forum, Westminster Presbyterian Church, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 27 April 2006.
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  • Westminster Town Hall Forum.
• Orville Schell and Brian Lamb, "David Halberstam, 1934-2007," Washington Journal, C-SPAN.org, 27 April 2007.
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  • Orville Schell. To Get Rich is Glorious: China in the Eighties. New York: Pantheon Books, 1984.
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  • Orville Schell and David Shambaugh, editors. The China Reader: The Reform Era. New York: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group (Random House), 1999; 2010.
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  • Orville Schell and John Delury. Wealth and Power: China's Long March to the Twenty-first Century. New York: Random House, 2013.
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Other Video:

• David Halberstam's The Fifties, History Channel, 1997.
  • YouTube playlist.
  • IMDb.
• Tupperware!, American Experience, PBS, 2004.
• I collected some links for videos of talks on the 1950s in my post for
  McCullough, Truman (1992).
  Those talks address such topics as the Truman Presidency, the early Cold War, and the Korean War.
• Lectures in History, American History TV, C-SPAN.org.
  I collected links for selected lectures on the 1950s from this series in Part 2: Lectures in History - Selected Lectures on the 1950s.

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Wikipedia Articles:

• History of the United States (1945–64).
• 1950s.
• United States in the 1950s.
• Post–World War II economic expansion.
• Economic history of the United States: Postwar prosperity: 1945–1973.

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At first glance Halberstam's book The Fifties may seem a collection of random episodes during the 1950s. This is due to the narrow focus of most of the many chapters on one topic or individual. However, in addition to several stories told in several parts across the book (for example, the politics of nuclear weapons development, the development of the birth control pill, the automobile industry, the civil rights movement), there are some themes or threads that run through the entire book:

• the role of journalists as witnesses of events, communicating awareness of events to broad audiences;
• the increasing power or impact of journalists as communications technologies evolved from print to radio to television;
• the increasing sophistication in the employment of television for entertainment, advertising, politics, and journalism during the 1950s;
• the role of television in accelerating social and political change during the 1950s;
• that events of the 1950s were the beginnings of events and movements now more commonly associated with the 1960s: Hippies (Beatniks preceded hippies as bohemian dropouts); Rock and Roll music; the Vietnam War; the Civil Rights Movement; the Sexual Revolution; the Women's Movement;
• and, finally, a theme that is perhaps so obvious that it is unnecessary to mention: that events are the result of the choices and actions of individuals, that history is a story of human actions.

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Other parts of this post:

• Part 2: Halberstam, The Fifties (1993) - Lectures in History - Selected Lectures on the 1950s
• Table of Contents: Halberstam, The Fifties (1993) - Table of Contents

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