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1 online resource (xviii, 348 pages) |
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Cover; Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Preface; This Could Be the Start of Something Big: Everyday things that started in the fifties; Take Me to Your Leader: The powers that were; Done Got Hip to Your Jive: Some fifties' vernacular; Put Your Glad Rags On: 10 fifties fashions; Better Led than Red: 10 fifties fads; Oh, Baby, That's What I Like!: 10 things we ate; Who Wrote the Book?: 10 publishing milestones; Let's Go for a Ride: 10 cars that made the fifties roll; Elvis Has Entered the Building: 10 milestones in the life of Tupelo's finest |
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Music! Music! Music!: Stories behind the fifties hitsSerendipity Doo-Wop: The rules of the game; B-sides, This: Some notable flip sides; Rock & Roll Is Here to Stay-Not!: 10 indicators of the first wave's demise; Somewhere There's Music: 10 unlikely recording artists; I'm Ready for My Close-Up: 10 fifties film debuts; The Next Film You See: 10 cinematic oddities; YOU!!! Are a Blabbermouth!!!!: 10 Hollywood rats; Hello, Norma Jeane: A decade in the life of Marilyn Monroe; You Can Say That Again: Fifties movie quotes for our time; And Now, a Word from Our Sponsors: 10 celebrity shills |
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I Don't Remember Mama: 10 once popular, now forgotten hit TV showsI Coulda Been a Contender: 10 proposed fifties television shows; Because We Like You: Kids' television in the fifties; Fun for a Girl and a Boy: A fifties toy box; Now Here's Something We Hope You Really Like: 10 fifties cartoons; Ain't That a Shame: Discredited urban legends of the fifties; You Can't Catch Me: 10 crimes and criminals of the decade; Fasten Your Seatbelts-It's Going to Be a Bumpy Night: 10 fifties disasters; The Whole Town's Talking: Scandalous behavior in the fifties |
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Once I Had a Secret Love: 10 bi- or gay fifties celebritiesVaya con Dios: Some final words from the dear departed; See You Later, Alligator: Celebrity deaths; The Signpost up Ahead: What 10 future celebrities were up to in the fifties; It Doesn't Matter Anymore: 10 familiar things that came to an end; Selected Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z; About the Author |
| Summary |
Journey back fifty years to explore the decade of baby boomers, the Red scare, and the birth of rock and roll with Robert Rodriguez's The 1950s' Most Wanted: The Top 10 Book of Rock & Roll Rebels, Cold War Crises, and All-American Oddities . America was revving its engines when the fifties came along, and its citizens more than ready for everything the historic decade had to offer. Rodriguez takes you on a spin down memory lane with dozens of top-ten lists filled with amazing, amusing, and even astonishing trivia from the 1950s. Television exploded into the mainstream in the 1950s, and in this |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 333-336) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Nineteen fifties -- Miscellanea
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Popular culture -- United States -- History -- 20th century -- Miscellanea
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HISTORY -- United States -- 20th Century.
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Civilization
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Nineteen fifties
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Popular culture
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United States -- Civilization -- 1945- -- Miscellanea
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United States -- History -- 1945-1953 -- Miscellanea
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United States -- History -- 1953-1961 -- Miscellanea
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
History
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Trivia and miscellanea
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781612340302 |
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161234030X |
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