Summary: This televised time capsule recounts the incredible events of the past 100 years. Through exclusive interviews and rare film footage you will witness the great wars, devastating disasters, and social changes of this century decade-by-decade.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Passport Video 2004
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV REMLindop, Edmund.
Summary: Provides accounts of key events that occurred during the 1950s in the areas of science, technology, transportation, the economy, society, literature, art and architecture, fashion, stage and screen, music, sports and recreation, and war, and includes photographs and primary sources.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twenty-First Century Books 2010
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 973.921 LINGaines, James R.
Summary: "A bold and original argument that upends the myth of the Fifties as a decade of conformity to celebrate the solitary, brave, and stubborn individuals who pioneered the radical gay rights, feminist, civil rights, and environmental movements, from historian James R. Gaines"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.0973 GAICopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.0973 GAIFeldman, Ellen
Summary: "Set in New York City in the heady aftermath of World War II when the men were coming home, the women were exhaling in relief, and everyone was having babies, The Trouble with You is the story of a young woman whose rosy future is upended in a single instant. Raised never to step out of bounds, educated in one of the Seven Sisters Colleges for a career as a wife and mother, torn between her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Summary: The protagonist of Fences (part of Wilsons ten-part Pittsburgh Cycle plays), Troy Maxson, is a strong man, a hard man. He has had to be to survive. Troy Maxson has gone through life in an America where to be proud and black is to face pressures that could crush a man, body and soul. But the 1950s are yielding to the new spirit of liberation in the 1960s, a spirit that is changing the world Troy...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Plume 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 812 WILWoods, Caroline (Caroline Courtney)
Summary: New York City, 1953. Louise Leithauser has filed some of the best pieces at her boyfriend Joe's brand new literary magazine, Downtown-- albeit under a male pseudonym. On the side she's writing a science fiction romance, The Lunar Housewife. When she overhears Joe and his business partner fighting about listening devices and death threats, Louise discovers that Downtown's strings are being...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC WOOCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WOODíaz Canales, Juan
Summary: "Private investigator John Blacksad is up to his feline ears in mystery and intrigue, digging up the backstories behind murders, child abductions, and nuclear secrets during the 1950s Red Scare in the United States" -- p. [4] of cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dark Horse 2010
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 DIATaylor, David C.
Summary: New York City in 1954. The Cold War is heating up. Senator Joe McCarthy is running a witch hunt for Communists in America. The newly formed CIA is fighting a turf battle with the FBI to see who will be the primary US intelligence agency. And the bodies of murdered young men are turning up in the city. Michael Cassidy has an unusual background for a New York cop. His father, a refugee from...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TAYHirsch, Foster
Summary: "A comprehensive study of the changing attitudes of America in the 1950s as reflected by the films of that decade"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 384.83 HIRMerritt, Jeffrey D.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Facts on File 1979
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 909.82 MERSummary: The 1950s are enshrined in the popular imagination as the decade of poodle skirts and “I Like Ike.” But this was also a complex time, in which the afterglow of Total Victory firmly gave way to Cold War paranoia. A sense of trepidation grew with the Suez Crisis and the H-bomb tests. At the same time, the fifties marked the cultural emergence of extraordinary new energies, like those of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.92 FIFSummary: This televised time capsule recounts the incredible events of the past 100 years. Through exclusive interviews and rare film footage you will witness the great wars, devastating disasters, and social changes of this century decade-by-decade.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Passport Video 2004