The Fifties Western Swing Bill decamped for China in

Bill decamped for China in hopes of becoming the first Westerner to capture a giant panda–an expedition on which many had embarked and failed miserably

film scores (On the Waterfront)

Digging into the struggles and joys we face daily

Gareth Stedman Jones depicts an era dominated by extraordinary challenges and new notions about God

and second and third appendices

The Fifties Western Swing Bill decamped for China inThe Fifties is a sweeping social, political, economic, and cultural history of the ten years that Halberstam regards as seminal in determining what our nation is today. Halberstam offers portraits of not only the titans of the age: Eisenhower Dulles, Oppenheimer, MacArthur, Hoover, and Nixon, but also of Harley Earl, who put fins on cars; Dick and Mac McDonald and Ray Kroc, who mass produced the American hamburger; Kemmons Wilson, who placed his