The Fifties by David Halberstam 1993, Hardcover 800 pages 9.5 X 6.5 X 2.5 inches. Everything political to Hugh Hefner, sensing that is own sexual obsessions were similar to those of other males of his generation, founded a magazine empire in the fifties. Elvis, Chet Atkins, Martin Luther King Jr, Marilyn Monroe, Joe DiMaggio, Katharine Dexter McCormick, Rosa Parks, Emmitt Till,J Edgar Hoover, Margaret Sanger, Dwight D Eisenhower, Richard Nixon, Lucille Ball, James Dean, Marlon Brando, Dick and Mac McDonald, Matt Ridgway, General Douglas MacArthur people of the fifties their influence and how America was shaped.