The 50s: The Story of a Decade
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Including contributions by Elizabeth Bishop - Truman Capote - John
Cheever - Roald Dahl - Janet Flanner - Nadine Gordimer - A. J.
Liebling - Dwight Macdonald - Joseph Mitchell - Marianne Moore -
Vladimir Nabokov - Sylvia Plath - V. S. Pritchett - Adrienne Rich -
Lillian Ross - Philip Roth - Anne Sexton - James Thurber - John
Updike - Eudora Welty - E. B. White - Edmund Wilson And featuring
new perspectives by Jonathan Franzen - Malcolm Gladwell - Adam
Gopnik - Elizabeth Kolbert - Jill Lepore - Rebecca Mead - Paul
Muldoon - Evan Osnos - David Remnick The 1950s are enshrined in the
popular imagination as the decade of poodle skirts and I Like Ike.
But this was also a complex time, in which the afterglow of Total
Victory firmly gave way to Cold War paranoia. A sense of
trepidation grew with the Suez Crisis and the H-bomb tests. At the
same time, the fifties marked the cultural emergence of
extraordinary new energies, like those of Thelonious Monk, Sylvia
Plath, and Tennessee Williams. The New Yorker was there in real
time, chronicling the tensions and innovations that lay beneath the
era's placid surface. In this thrilling volume, classic works of
reportage, criticism, and fiction are complemented by new
contributions from the magazine's present all-star lineup of
writers, including Jonathan Franzen, Malcolm Gladwell, and Jill
Lepore. Here are indelible accounts of the decade's most exciting
players: Truman Capote on Marlon Brando as a pampered young star;
Emily Hahn on Chiang Kai-shek in his long Taiwanese exile; and
Berton Roueche on Jackson Pollock in his first flush of fame.
Ernest Hemingway, Emily Post, Bobby Fischer, and Leonard Bernstein
are also brought to vivid life in these pages. The magazine's
commitment to overseas reporting flourished in the 1950s, leading
to important dispatches from East Berlin, the Gaza Strip, and Cuba
during the rise of Castro. Closer to home, the fight to break
barriers and establish a new American identity led to both
illuminating coverage, as in a portrait of Thurgood Marshall at an
NAACP meeting in Atlanta, and trenchant commentary, as in E. B.
White's blistering critique of Senator Joe McCarthy. The arts scene
is here recalled in critical writing rarely reprinted, whether it's
Wolcott Gibbs on My Fair Lady, Anthony West on Invisible Man, or
Philip Hamburger on Candid Camera. The reader is made witness to
the initial response to future cultural touchstones through Edmund
Wilson's galvanizing book review of Doctor Zhivago and Kenneth
Tynan's rapturous response to the original production of Gypsy. As
always, The New Yorker didn't just consider the arts but
contributed to them. Among the audacious young writers who began
publishing in the fifties was one who would become a stalwart for
the magazine in both fiction and criticism for fifty-five years:
John Updike. Also featured here are great early works from Philip
Roth and Nadine Gordimer, as well as startling poems by Theodore
Roethke and Anne Sexton, among others. Completing the panoply are
insightful and entertaining new pieces by present day New Yorker
contributors examining the 1950s through contemporary eyes. The
result is a vital portrait of American culture as only one magazine
in the world could do it. Praise for The 50s Superb: a gift that
keeps on giving.--Kirkus Reviews (starred review) A] magnificent
anthology.--Literary Review
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