{"product_id":"the-fifties-9780449909331","title":"The Fifties","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe Fifties\u003c\/b\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eDavid Halberstam\u003c\/b\u003e was a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and the author of numerous books, including \u003ci\u003eThe Best and the Brightest, The Powers That Be, The Reckoning, Summer of '49, Playing for Keeps, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eWar in a Time of Peace. \u003c\/i\u003eHe died in April 2007.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Ballantine Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50626778464530,"sku":"9780449909331","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_b19312cb-f8f2-42bd-91cf-4b2cfa7a533c.jpg?v=1732669035","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-fifties-9780449909331","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}