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The Fifties

Everything Began in the 1950s

David Macaray | Posted 07.09.2012 | Home
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David Macaray

Portraying the '50s as intellectually stunted not only misses the point, it wildly misrepresents what really happened. Not only was the decade not an era of mindless conformity, it was the diametric opposite.

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1950s: The Not-So-Silent Generation

Tom Alderman | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books
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Tom Alderman

Fred Kaplan's enlivening 1959: The Year Everything Changed, argues that the '50s -- a decade that saw the invention of the microchip and the creation of explosive art -- has been misunderstood in hindsight.

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