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Title: America in the Fifties
Subtitle: America in the Twentieth Century
Author: Andrew J. Dunar
Narrator: Alex Vincent
Format: Unabridged
Length: 14 hrs and 11 mins
Language: English
Release date: 03-06-13
Publisher: University Press Audiobooks
Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 5 votes
Genres: History, 20th Century
Publisher's Summary:
A concise and accessible account of the era written with an eye toward engaging the student and general listener.
Blessed by a booming economy, the United States experienced the benefits of technology in the 1950s, with television and the automobile transforming the way people lived, and the space race offering new challenges. At the same time, the nation faced domestic divisions and international crises that would have far-reaching historical and political consequences.
The 1950s evoke images of prosperity, suburbia, a smiling President Eisenhower, cars with elaborate tail fins, Elvis Presley, Marilyn Monroe, and the "golden age" of television - seemingly a simpler time in which the idealized family life of situation comedies had at least some basis in reality. A closer examination, however, recalls more threatening images: the hysteria of McCarthyism, the shadow of the atomic bomb, war in Korea, the Soviet threat manifested in the launch of Sputnik and the bombast of Nikita Khrushchev, and a clash over the integration of public buses in Montgomery, Alabama, and a high school in Little Rock, Arkansas. Andrew J. Dunar successfully shows how the issues confronting America in the late twentieth century have roots in the fifties, some apparent at the time, others only in retrospect: civil rights, environmentalism, the counterculture, and "movements" on behalf of women, Latinos, and Native Americans.
The rise of the "beats", the continuing development of jazz, the emergence of rock 'n' roll, and the art of Jackson Pollock reveal the decade to be less conformist than commonly portrayed. While the cold war rivalry with the Soviet Union generated the most concern, Dunar skillfully illustrates how the rise of Nasser in Egypt, Castro in Cuba, and Communist regimes in North Korea, Vietnam, and China signaled new regional challenges to American power.
This book will be ideal for instructors of American history survey courses at the high school and undergraduate levels.
The book is published by Syracuse University Press.
Critic Reviews:
"America in the Fifties succeeds in capturing the hopes, promise and temperament of an era. Chapters cover a range of topic, from the influence of business and economic growth and changes to political figures who made a lasting impact on American society." (The Midwest Book Review)
Members Reviews:
Good book. AWFUL delivery.......
What could have made this a 4 or 5-star listening experience for you?
The book itself is good. It gives a fairly comprehensive treatment of the period, given the books length.
Would you be willing to try another one of Alex Vincents performances?
Not if this performance is indicative of his work. It is frequently choppy and he often stutters and stumbles over his words.
Any additional comments?
This audiobook really needs to be redone. If the publisher is unwilling to do so then I must discourage everyone from buying it.
A great read marred by flawed narration
Would you consider the audio edition of America in the Fifties to be better than the print version?
I would not consider the audio edition of America in the Fifties to be better than the print version with this narrator reading in the unprepared way he reads now.
