Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. What I was expecting that day over lunch were some sage observations about the way the policy of détente, ...

David Halberstam's amazing 1993 book The Fifties was written to be a comprehensive document—not of a single decade, but of an American epoch that began with the atomic bomb dropping on Hiroshima and ...

Ted reviews "The Fifties" by David Halberstam. David Halberstam's "The Fifties" covers every major facet of the 1950's, from the Cold War to Rosa Parks, Leave it to Beaver to I Love Lucy. Ted reviews ...

Archival footage and interviews with historians mark this fascinating documentary on the 1950s, based on David Halberstam's bestseller. Among the subjects covered: work and the family; the impact of ...