The Fifties

London England: Book Club Associates, 1978. Hardback. The Fifties. Repair to a couple of tears to edge of D/J. . Life at the outset of the Fifties was real and earnest, with Nuclear War and ever-present dread. With food rationing even more severe that it had been in 1945, an appalling shortage of houses, coalk, even tobacco, and that austere vegetarian Sir Stafford Cripps exhorting the country to still greater sacrifices, life was bleaker than in wartime. Then came the Festival of Britain, primising 'fun, fantasy and colour'. And suddenly things began to move. 'Angry Young Men' like John Osborne and John Braine attacked 'the Establishment'. What Peter Lewis calls a 'Youthwuake' occurred, to the raucous beat of Bill Haley and Rock 'n' Roll; Teddy Boys began to strut the streets, whilst Lady Docker drove by in her gold-plated Daimler; the Affluent Society arrived via the United States; and at the end of the decade Harold Macmillan was saying 'You've never had it so good'. The Fifties were a major watershed in modern history, which changed the facts of life for all to see - an era of fear and iconoclasm, novelty and confusion, Suez and sputniks, Pot Art and James Bond, Marilyn Monroe and Brigitte Bardot, new ideas, new dilemmas, new faces, new sounds. Illustrated. 256 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions, Reference books ,and all types of Academic Literature.). 1st Book Club Associates. Cloth. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall Octavo. Hardback.