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Charles Kuralt's classic bestseller is now on audio! On The Road With Charles Kuralt Featuring Charles Kuralt with an introduction by Wallace Kuralt "To read the front pages, you might conclude that Americans are mostly out for themselves...but you can't travel the back roads very long without discovering a multitude of gentle people doing good for others with no expectation of gain or recognition." In this collection of short audio essays, Charles...
5) The 1940s
Author
Publisher
Lucent Books
Pub. Date
c1999
Physical Desc
128 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Description
Discusses the political, economic, and cultural life of one of the pivotal decades of the twentieth century, a period of transition and crisis for the nation and for its citizens.
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
©2014.
Physical Desc
xvii, 696 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Description
"In this enthralling book, masterly contributions from the pantheon of great writers who graced The New Yorker's pages throughout the decade are placed in history by the magazine's current writers."--www.Amazon.com.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
c2013
Physical Desc
iv, 460 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Description
"The Victory Season brings to vivid life the years of baseball and war, including the little known "World Series" that servicemen played in a captured Hitler Youth stadium in the fall of 1945. Robert Weintraub's extensive research and vibrant storytelling enliven the legendary season that embodies what we now think of as the game's golden era."--www.Amazon.com.
12) Quiz show
Publisher
Hollywood Pictures Home Video
Pub. Date
[1995?]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (133 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Fame and fortune become a hotbed of scandal when a Washington investigator uncovers corruption beneath the TV's hottest quiz show's glittering facade. The scandal implicates both the wildly popular champion and the disgruntled ex-champ.
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Publisher
Atria Paperback
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
572 p. ; 23 cm.
Description
Fledgling writer Sara Smythe has defied her parents' wishes, left Hartford, and begun a literary life in post-WWII New York. She lands a sought-after job at Life magazine and frequents parties in Greenwich Village hosted by her playwright brother, Eric. There, surrounded by Communists and artists, she meets Jack Malone, a Stars and Stripes journalist. The night they spend together upends Sara's plans and sends her, Jack, and Ericon on a collision...
14) Diner
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2000
Physical Desc
1 DVD (110 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Set in 1959, a band of long-time buddies since high school gather at a local diner to share their escapades and make sense of their lives. As one by one they drift off to join the mainstream of life they still cling to their shared boyhood dreams.
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"After World War II, suburbs proliferated around California cities as returning soldiers traded in their uniforms for business suits. After-hours leisure activities took on an island-themed sensuality that bloomed from a new fascination with Polynesia and Hawaii. Movies and television shows filmed in Malibu and Burbank urged viewers to escape everyday life with the likes of Gidget and Hawaiian Eye. Restaurants like Don the Beachcomber and Trader Vic's...
16) Great Society
Author
Publisher
Harper Collins Publishers
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
15 CDs (17 hrs. 30 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A deep analysis of the government policy that has shaped politics and society for fifty years, this is an authoritative and well reasoned reinterpretation of Johnson's signature achievement and the momentous period in which it was conceived.
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Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
304 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Description
To grow up in the 1950s was to enter a world of polarized national alliances, nuclear threat, and destabilized social hierarchies. Two world wars and the depression that connected them had unleashed a torrent of expectations and dissatisfactions―not only in global affairs but in American society and Americans’ lives. A privileged white girl in conservative, segregated Virginia was expected to adopt a willful blindness to the inequities of race...
19) Far from heaven
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
2003, c2002.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (108 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Cathy is the perfect 50s housewife, living the perfect 50s life: healthy kids, successful husband, social prominence. Then one night she walks in on her husband Frank having sex with another man, and her tidy world starts spinning out of control. In her confusion and grief, she finds consolation in the friendship of their African-American gardener, Raymond--a socially taboo relationship that leads to the further disintegration of life as she knew...
20) The fifties
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Publisher
Villard Books
Pub. Date
1993.
Physical Desc
xi, 800 p., [32] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
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