1950s Books


Blacklisted by History: The Untold Story of Senator Joe McCarthy and His Fight Against America's Enemies Best Price: $12.95 You may also enjoy: Cry Havoc: The Great American Bring-Down and How It Happened Blacklisted...	The Fifties Best Price: $7.45 Doesn't Fawcett Columbine employ copy-editors? This is one manuscript that needed a good...	Parting the Waters : America in the King Years 1954-63 (America in the King Years) Best Price: $8.69 This book is even better than the glowing reviews suggested. It's simply a masterpiece of...	Bitter Fruit: The Story of the American Coup in Guatemala, Revised and Expanded (David Rockefeller Center Series on Latin American Studies) Best Price: $16.41 To be honest, I would never have made it through this book if it had not been required for my...	To Sleep with the Angels: The Story of a Fire Best Price: $6.98 This was a fascinating book. I bought it to read on a trip, because of the excellent ratings. We...



The Temple Bombing Best Price: $1.99 I found this book to be good background reading regarding the history of Atlanta's passage...	Kennedy and Nixon: The Rivalry That Shaped Postwar America Best Price: $4.50 This book ties in perfectly with Theodore Whites 'The Making of the President 1960.' The...	Tender Comrades: A Backstory of the Hollywood Blacklist Best Price: $5.05 It has been nearly 50 years since the Hollywood blacklist and they just can't get over what...	Two Tankers Down: The Greatest Small-Boat Rescue in U.S. Coast Guard History Best Price: $10.15 A riveting account of the greatest small-boat rescue in American history.	All Shook Up: How Rock 'n' Roll Changed America (Pivotal Moments in American History) Best Price: $8.95 Rock n roll may seem like an odd choice for a pivotal moment in American history but altschuler...



The Pendleton Disaster off Cape Cod: The Greatest Small Boat Rescue in Coast Guard History Best Price: $12.34 The Pendleton Disaster gives new and important insights into Bernard C. Webber's impossible...	Total Cold War: Eisenhower's Secret Propaganda Battle at Home and Abroad Best Price: $19.97 In the early 1980s, with the publication of Fred I. Greenstein's book, "The Hidden-Hand...	Sputnik: The Shock of the Century Best Price: $5.68 In Sputnik, Paul Dickson takes a single historic event and uses it as a spot from which to take...	Secret History: The CIAs Classified Account of Its Operations in Guatemala 1952-1954 Best Price: $12.99 The first edition of this book, published in 1999, was well-received, but interest in it has...	Bitters in the Honey: Tales of Hope and Disappointment Across Divides of Race and Time Best Price: $20.00 In this excellent book, Beth Roy examines the lives of whites and blacks who attended Central...

As Seen on TV: The Visual Culture of Everyday Life in the 1950s Best Price: $10.54 Brief, entertaining and containing some excellent period photos, this book is also literate and...	My Father Said Yes: A White Pastor in Little Rock School Integration Best Price: $15.57 Dunbar Ogden's entire family was deeply effected by the stand he took in Little Rock. As a...	Joseph McCarthy: Reexamining the Life and Legacy of America's Most Hated Senator Best Price: $18.00 Thoroughly researched and excellently written, this book is a great read. It gives a distinct...	Wait Till Next Year: A Memoir Best Price: $3.40 As a Brooklyn-born boy who came late into his true inheritance, love of the Brooklyn Dodgers,...	Secret History: The CIA's Classified Account of Its Operations in Guatemala, 1952-1954 Best Price: $11.99 Book contains a lot of useful insights into this event. The blanked out portions can be a...

A Shadow of Red: Communism and the Blacklist in Radio and Television Best Price: $4.98 None of us can learn all of history in detail, but we also need to learn something more about it...	Dark Noon Best Price: $8.72 In this season of great storms, and with the first anniversary of the Asian tsunami approaching,...	Shooting Star: The Brief Arc of Joe McCarthy Best Price: $3.49 Good book, but more on the general atmosphere of the times, the results of McCarthy's hounding...	The Birth of the Beat Generation: Visionaries, Rebels, and Hipsters, 1944-1960 (Repr of 1995 ed) (Circles of the Twentieth Century) Best Price: $72.91 Watson writes a good book about a sour subject. Allen Ginsburg, William Burroughs, and Jack...	Sex-Crime Panic: A Journey to the Paranoid Heart of the 1950s Best Price: $8.92 Despite its rather sensational title, "Sex-Crime Panic" tells a cautionary story about...

The Crime of the Century: How the Brinks Robbers Stole Millions and the Hearts of Boston Best Price: $16.19 "This is Brink's. We are cleaned out. We are cleaned out." That's how the world first...	A Matter of Justice: Eisenhower and the Beginning of the Civil Rights Revolution Best Price: $4.98 The 1950s is often referred to nostalgically especially by those like me who grew up during this...	A Ball, a Dog, and a Monkey: 1957 - The Space Race Begins Best Price: $3.90 I was in 9th grade for Vanguard and Explorer, but I would later come to work on Gemini and...	Keep Watching the Skies!: The Story of Operation Moonwatch and the Dawn of the Space Age Best Price: $6.90 It's hard to believe that just over 50 years ago people were excited about science. It was seen...	The Boys of Boise: Furor, Vice & Folly in an American City (Columbia Northwest Classics) Best Price: $12.94 The Boys of Boise is one of those books that anyone interested in understanding the issues...

The Transformation of American Air Power (Cornell Studies in Security Affairs) Best Price: $10.66 Ben Lambeth has written a brilliant and much needed analysis of the transition of airpower in...	Hurricane Audrey: The Deadly Storm of 1957 Best Price: $12.47 I live in Lake Charles, Louisiana. My mom was 11 when Audrey came through. I still remember...	American Gunfight: The Plot to Kill Harry Truman--and the Shoot-out that Stopped It Best Price: $2.85 I initially chose this book because I was interested in the story. Unfortunately, I was unable...	The Long Shadow of Little Rock: A Memoir Best Price: $11.02 Daisy Bates work is a very important document from the era of civil rights. Although it is not...	Young, White, and Miserable: Growing Up Female in the Fifties Best Price: $19.00 The fifties and sixties have always been an inspiring time that I love studying. My parents grew...

Change Your Underwear Twice a Week: Lessons from the Golden Age of Classroom Filmstrips Best Price: $2.99 If you remember the filmstrips from elementary school, this book is definitely a lot of fun....	Eisenhower The President Best Price: $23.99 In this book, Ambrose follows up on his biography of Dwight Eisenhower. The first book dealt...	Under the Cloud: The Decades of Nuclear Testing Richard Miller's "Under the Cloud" is probably a must-read for any of the late...	The Holy Goof: A Biography of Neal Cassady Best Price: $8.01 Neil Cassady acted on the periphery of the Beat movement for much of his adult life and thus...	Lost Revolutions: The South in the 1950s Best Price: $22.50 Read this for graduate American history course. Lost Revolutions by Pete Daniel is a book that...

A Cross of Iron: Harry S. Truman and the Origins of the National Security State, 1945-1954 Best Price: $26.08 With a keen eye for historical significance, Kevin Hogan surveys the formation of the national...	The Suppression of Salt of the Earth: How Hollywood, Big Labor, and Politicians Blacklisted a Movie in the American Cold War Best Price: $22.50 This impassioned history tells a story of censorship and politics during the early Cold War. The...	Ike's Spies: Eisenhower and the Espionage Establishment Best Price: $7.50 Ike has always been underestimated as an American President. Occurring as he did, during an era...	Seeing Is Believing: How Hollywood Taught Us to Stop Worrying and Love the Fifties Best Price: $42.95 Peter Biskind uses "Seeeing is Believing" to look back at films from the 1950's from a...	Secret Empire: Eisenhower, the CIA, and the Hidden Story of America's Space Espionage Best Price: $6.35 I have been studying secret science research projects during World War II for some time, as well...

Deliberate Speed: The Origins of a Cultural Style in the American 1950s, with a New Preface Best Price: $18.85 Lhamon has a unique view of the American 1950's. Anyone who is interested in American culture...	The Hidden-Hand Presidency: Eisenhower as Leader Best Price: $22.50 Ordinary professorial elucidation of the obvious; the author seems surprised by the fact that...	Presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower (American Presidency Series) Best Price: $10.55 Read this for graduate American history course. The Presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower by...	Ike's Final Battle: The Road to Little Rock and the Challenge of Equality Best Price: $12.87 Kasey Pipes does a tremendous job of bringing Eisenhower's previously scarcely commented on...	Turn Away Thy Son: Little Rock, the Crisis That Shocked the Nation Best Price: $2.00 A lifetime's work shows in this excellent history of the Little Rock desegregation crisis. The...

The Age of Anxiety: McCarthyism to Terrorism Best Price: $0.01 "The Age of Anxiety" is unapologetic from the outset in displaying the partisan bias...	The Rise of Massive Resistance: Race and Politics in the South During the 1950s Best Price: $13.50	Fifties Flashback: A Nostalgia Trip Best Price: $12.95 NOTE; the cover has a hotrod and the first subtitle is "Cars We Drove". If you know...	Invisible Suburbs: Recovering Protest Fiction in the 1950s United States Best Price: $19.95 The 1950's was about much more than conformity, containment, and contentment, and Lukin and his...	John F. Kennedy and the Missile Gap Best Price: $20.00 John F. Kennedy owed his victorious bid for the presidency-as well as his success in reversing...

Blockbusting In Baltimore: The Edmondson Village Story Best Price: $24.87 I grew up in the 600 block of Grantly St. We moved in 1964. Everything Dr. Orser says is true -...	Many Are the Crimes: McCarthyism in America Best Price: $11.49 A must read for anyone wishing to get a fairly synthetic view of the McCarthy era. Other good...

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