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The Fifties
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The Fifties
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An exciting and enlightening revisionist history (Walter Isaacson, #1 New York Times bestselling author) that upends the myth of the 1950s as a decade of conformity and celebrates a few solitary, brave, and stubborn individuals who pioneered the radical gay rights, feminist, civil rights, and environmental movements, from historian James R. Gaines. An enchanting, beautifully written book about heroes and the dark times to which they refused to surrender (Todd Gitlin, bestselling author of The Sixties). In a series of character portraits, The Fifties invokes the accidental radicalspeople motivated not by politics but by their own most intimate conflictswho sparked movements for change in their time and our own. Among many others, we meet legal pathfinder Pauli Murray, who was tortured by both her mixed-race heritage and her in between sexuality. Through years of hard work and self-examination, she turned her demons into historic victories. Ruth Bader Ginsburg credited her for the argument that made sex discrimination unconstitutional, but that was only one of her gifts to the 21st-century feminism. We meet Harry Hay, who dreamed of a national gay rights movement as early as the mid-1940s, a time when the US, Soviet Union, and Nazi Germany viewed gay people as subversives and mentally ill. And in perhaps the books unlikeliest pairing, we hear the prophetic voices of Silent Springs Rachel Carson and MITs preeminent mathematician, Norbert Wiener, who from their very different perspectivesshe is in the living world, he in the theoretical oneconverged on the then-heretical idea that our mastery over the natural world carried the potential for disaster. Their legacy is the environmental movement. The Fifties is an inspiration[and] a reminder of the hard work and personal sacrifice that went into fighting for the constitutional rights of gay people, Blacks, and women, as well as for environmental protection (The Washington Post). The book carries the powerful message that change begins not in mass movements and new legislation but in the lives of the decentered, often lonely individuals, who learn to fight for change in a daily struggle with themselves.
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| Author | James R. Gaines |
|---|---|
| ISBN-13 | 9781439101643 |
| Item Height | 2.4 |
| Item Length | 21 |
| Item Width | 14.2 |
| Publisher | Simon & Schuster |
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