The Fifties is a sweeping social, political, economic, and
cultural history of the ten years that Halberstam regards as
seminal in determining what our nation is today. Halberstam
offers portraits of not only the titans of the age:
Eisenhower Dulles, Oppenheimer, MacArthur, Hoover, and
Nixon, but also of Harley Earl, who put fins on cars; Dick
and Mac McDonald and Ray Kroc, who mass-produced the
American hamburger; Kemmons Wilson, who placed his Holiday
Inns along the nation's roadsides; U-2 pilot Gary Francis
Powers; Grace Metalious, who wrote Peyton Place; and "Goody"
Pincus, who led the team that invented the Pill.
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