American Culture in the 1950s

Martin Halliwell

Paper, 336 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-7486-1885-9
$34.00

September, 2007
Cloth, 336 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-7486-1884-2
Edinburgh University Press
$120.00

"The 1950s has been transformed in the scholarly literature from a ‘tranquillized’ decade to an almost ‘tumultuous’ one, and therefore is badly in need of a restorative balance. This is the achievement of Martin Halliwell's superb account of a postwar period that, for all of its familiarity, remains tantalizingly elusive. By showing the persistence of the varieties of cultural modernism, he advances the retrospective understanding of a decade that was not merely the lengthened shadow of the Cold War. His book is thoughtful, expansive and engaging." — Stephen J. Whitfield, Brandeis University

Related Subjects

• American History

About the Author

Martin Halliwell is Professor of American Studies at the University of Leicester. His most recent authored books include Transatlantic Modernism: Moral Dilemmas in Modernist Fiction (EUP, 2005), The Constant Dialogue: Reinhold Niebuhr and American Intellectual Culture (Rowman & Littlefield, 2005) and Images of Idiocy: The Idiot Figure in Modern Fiction and Film (Ashgate, 2004).

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