The Crucial Decade - and After: America, 1945-1960
by Eric F. Goldman
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“This is a book of flashbacks to yesterday, in some ways rather in the manner of the late Frederick Lewis Allen. It is more than merely episodic; it is also an alert commentary upon the life of a people, full of their bad taste, their frustrations and fears--and their gallantry as well. The task is done simply and objectively for the most part, but with sympathy and understanding in a style never less than adequate and sometimes approaching the powerful.”– New York TimesTags
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This was one of the assigned readings in my college credit American History class my junior year of high school. I think it may have been the first class that really got me interested in world events, and this book gets much of the credit for that.
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- Original title
- The crucial decade--and after: America, 1945-1960
- Original publication date
- 1960
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- Genres
- History, Nonfiction, General Nonfiction
- DDC/MDS
- 973.918 — History & geography History of North America United States 1901- World Wars and Depression Era (1901-1953) Franklin D. Roosevelt (1941-1945) Attack on Pearl Harbor, WW2, D-Day
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- E813 .G6 — History of the United States United States Twentieth century Truman's administrations, April 12, 1945-1953
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- Languages
- English, German
- Media
- Paper
- ISBNs
- 3
- ASINs
- 14
