Program in Communications, Columbia University "A history of the courageous men and women who roiled postwar complacency. These women and men of the '50s and thereafter, in all their complexity, deeply deserve the word, as Gaines's moving treatment makes clear." -Todd Gitlin, bestselling author of The Sixties: Years of Hope, Days of Rage Professor of Journalism and Sociology and Chair, Ph. They were the true rebels, and their bravery show us how real social change occurs." - Walter Isaacson, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Code Breaker " The Fifties is an enchanting, beautifully written book about heroes and the dark times to which they refused to surrender. Here are the inspiring tales of the unsung heroes who sowed the seeds of the gay rights, civil rights, feminist, and environmental movements.
"Gaines has written an exciting and enlightening revisionist history of the 1950s showing how the brave pioneers of that supposedly sleepy decade launched the movements of the 1960s that continue to this day.
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