The 1950s Decade in Photos

The 1950s Decade in Photos PDF Author: Jim Corrigan
Publisher: Enslow Publishing, LLC
ISBN: 9780766031340
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 68

Book Description
Describes the important world, national, and cultural developments of the decade 1950-1959.

American Decades

American Decades PDF Author: Vincent Tompkins
Publisher: American Decades
ISBN: 9780810357266
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 658

Book Description
Intended as a reference source for American social history, this volume discusses the people, events and ideas of the 1940s. After an introductory overview and chronology, subject chapters follow with subject-specific timelines and alphabetically arranged entries.

The Lost Decade

The Lost Decade PDF Author: Dermot Keogh
Publisher: Mercier Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 308

Book Description
This book brings to light the social, cultural, political and economic complexities and contradictions of Ireland in the 1950s. There is a strong emphasis on the development of economic thinking and cultural life in Ireland during the 1950s. There are contributions on the role of women in society, the question of abortion and attitudes towards adoption The academic panel, which includes John Banville, Andrew McCarthy, John Bradley and Gerry O'Hanlon, has contributed essays based on original research.

The Decade That Shaped Television News

The Decade That Shaped Television News PDF Author: Sig Mickelson
Publisher: Praeger
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 272

Book Description
The first president of CBS News gives an insider's account of the development of television news in the 1950s.

Larger Than Life

Larger Than Life PDF Author: R. Barton Palmer
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
ISBN: 0813547660
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 295

Book Description
A Volume in the Star Decades: American Culture/American Cinema series, edited by Adrienne L. McLean and Murray Pomerance --Book Jacket.

Democratizing Texas Politics

Democratizing Texas Politics PDF Author: Benjamin Márquez
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 0292753845
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 256

Book Description
"In 1940 there were virtually no Mexican American elected officials in Texas at any level of government. By the turn of the century that was no longer true. In fact, Mexican Americans in Texas had effectively reached parity with their white counterparts in elected office. This book tells the story of this dramatic transition in Texas politics and seeks to explain it utilizing original archival research, hours of interviews with leading figures, and the collected letters of some of Texas' most important politicians and activists. The departure from a racially uniform political class in Texas to incorporate Mexican Americans was slow and difficult. Mexican Americans rarely won easy victories and the concessions they received were often yielded with reluctance. Threatened with racial tension, minority status and political exclusion, it is perhaps surprising that Mexican Americans were so successfully incorporated. I argue that their incorporation was the culmination of six interrelated political processes: the long history of political organization among Mexican Americans in Texas that had established an effective corps of leaders, an increasing proportion of the voting-age population, new Democratic Party policies developed to increase the representation of women and minorities, a reinvigorated Republican Party that absorbed conservative voters and weakened resistance to racial reform in the Democratic Party, the civil rights legislation of the 1960s, and finally, an alliance with Anglo liberals that facilitated the transition to a more representative two-party system in Texas"--

Mark Rothko

Mark Rothko PDF Author: Bradford R. Collins
Publisher: Rizzoli Publications
ISBN: 0847839001
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 178

Book Description
The first publication dedicated exclusively to Mark Rothko’s art during the critical formative period of the 1940s. Examining the development and artistic exploration of one of the greatest artists of the twentieth century, this unprecedented volume presents the works of American artist Mark Rothko from the 1940s, a time when his most essential development as a painter occurred, dramatically and in a very compact space of time. During this period, Rothko moved from expressive figurative and surrealist canvases to more abstract multiform subjects and finally to his signature abstractions—luminous rectangles of color suspended in space. Richly illustrated with works by Rothko and his contemporaries, introduction by Todd Herman and essays by prominent Rothko scholars, this important new book deepens our understanding of Rothko’s art during this vital period, and that of the mature works that emerged from it.

The Forgotten Fifties

The Forgotten Fifties PDF Author: James Conaway
Publisher: Skira
ISBN: 9780847843732
Category : History, Modern
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
"From the archive of Look comes a photographic portrayal of the dynamic era that sparked a transformation in America's political and cultural identity. From the Red Scare incited by Joseph McCarthy to the election of John F. Kennedy as president in 1960, best-selling journalist James Conaway charts an entertaining and highly readable year-by-year survey through the fifties as it heralded some of the most striking and clashing aspects of twentieth-century America."--Dust jacket flap.

Honkers and Shouters

Honkers and Shouters PDF Author: Arnold Shaw
Publisher: Macmillan Publishing Company
ISBN: 9780020617402
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 555

Book Description

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