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Something From The Oven By: Laura Shapiro The tale of how America turned gradually from TV dinners to using TV to learn how to cook dinners. This book documents the food industry's attempts to reinvent cooking during the 1950s and includes innovations from canned hamburgers to Jell-O. 336 pages. Paperback: $16.15 |
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Patio Daddy-O: '50s Recipes With A Modern Twist By: Bosker, Brooks, and L. & C. Payton When foods from the fifties meet the tastes of today you get Patio Cuisine. Over thirty recipes for drinks, salads, sandwiches, BBQ, main dishes and desserts will make any backyard party a success. Mom's secret recipe for potato salad has been revealed! 96 pages. Hardcover: $13.95 |
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Homeward Bound: American Families In The Cold War Era By: Elaine Tyler May May shows the relationship of the contradictory 1950s - domestic tranquility amidst Cold War fears. Data on over 300 couples brings together the argument that America's retreat into the privacy and security of their homes was a response to insecurities. 288 pages. Paperback: $21.50 |
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The Cold War Comes To Main Street By: Lisle A. Rose Rose contends that 1950 was a pivotal year in America. The rise of thermonuclear power, McCarthyism, the Korean War and Communism destroyed a sense of national community, confidence and civility and led us on the road to Vietnam. 404 pages. Hardcover: $42.95 |
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The Fifties By: David Halberstam A sweeping history of the decade that changed America politically, economically, socially and culturally. From Truman to Castro, Kerouac to Presley, the Korean War to Levittown, and McDonald's to Holiday Inn, this is The Fifties. 800 pages. Paperback: $16.15 |
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On Every Front By: Thomas G. Patterson Patterson follows the Cold War from those struggling in the devastated countries of World War II to the dismantling of the Berlin Wall and the disintegration of the Soviet Union and includes such figures as Truman, Reagan, Stalin and Gorbachev. 304 pages. Paperback: $18.25 |
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