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DAVID HALBERSTAM, The Fifties (New York, Villard Books, Random House, 1993) 800 pp., $27.50 hardcover (ISBN-679-41559-9).
Reading the book is rather more than one might get from watching a rerun of ten years of TV-evening-news, but not a great deal more. It is short on historical perspective and depth of treatment, and there are...