TY - BOOK AU - Lindop,Edmund TI - America in the 1950s SN - 0761325514 (lib. bdg.) AV - E169.12 .L546 2002 U1 - 973.921 21 PY - 2002/// CY - Brookfield, Conn. PB - Twenty-First Century Books KW - Nineteen fifties KW - Juvenile literature KW - United States KW - Civilization KW - 1945- KW - History KW - 1945-1953 KW - 1953-1961 N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. 123-124) and index; The Korean War -- A Red scare haunts Americans -- "I Like Ike" and "I'm Madly for Adlai" -- African Americans seek racial justice -- The Cold War escalates -- Big changes come to the United States -- Television takes center stage -- More entertainment -- A golden age of sports N2 - Outlines life in the United States in the 1950s, including the development of suburbia, advances in technology and entertainment, politics, the space race, and the Cold War ER -