This engrossing anthology assembles classic New Yorker pieces from a complex era enshrined in the popular imagination as the decade of poodle skirts and Cold Wa

Describes the important world, national, and cultural developments of the decade 1950-1959.

Intended as a reference source for American social history, this volume discusses the people, events and ideas of the 1940s. After an introductory overview and

This book brings to light the social, cultural, political and economic complexities and contradictions of Ireland in the 1950s. There is a strong emphasis on th

The first president of CBS News gives an insider's account of the development of television news in the 1950s.