1953-1961

Provides a chronological account of the 1960 Presidential campaign discussing candidates, parties, issues, political conventions, and the election's outcome.

Chronicles the life of Dwight D. Eisenhower the thirty-fourth president of the United States, covering his childhood, education, military career and wartime service, political career and presidency, and personal life.

A member of the Little Rock Nine shares her memories of growing up in the South under Jim Crow.

In 1955 California, as "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" is filmed in their hometown, thirteen-year-old Arnie discovers a real enemy when he and three friends go against a young government agent determined to find communists at a nearby university or on the movie set.

Contains entries that provide information on topics, terms, people, and events of the 1950s in the United States and Canada, each with suggestions for further reading; arranged alphabetically from Jackie Robinson Herman Wouk. Includes comprehensive indexes, a time line, and other reference tools.

Rosa Parks is arrested after refusing to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus. The African-American community, under the leadership of Martin Luther King, Jr., organizes a boycott of the busing system and calls national attention to segregation laws and the civil rights movement.

While on a trip in 1956 to visit her grandmother in the South, six-year-old Sarah Marie experiences segregation for the first time, but discovers that things have changed by the time she returns the following year.

Examines the dark undercurrent that lay beneath American contentedness in the 1950s, discussing McCarthyism, the escalation of the Cold War, and violent civil rights demonstrations.

The Age of Eisenhower is the definitive account of this presidency, drawing extensively on declassified material from the Eisenhower Library, the CIA and Defense Department, and troves of unpublished documents. In his masterful account, Hitchcock shows how Ike shaped modern America, and he astutely assesses Eisenhower's close confidants, from Attorney General Brownell to Secretary of State Dulles. The result is an eye-opening reevaluation that explains why this "do-nothing "president is rightly regarded as one of the best leaders our country has ever had.

Discusses the American politics and history of the 1950s.