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A one-of-kind look back at the 1950s, as told by some of The New Yorker's most notable contributors, chronicles the tensions and innovations that lay behind the decade's more placid surface during a time of prosperity and contradiction.

Introduction xi
David Remnick
PART ONE AMERICAN SCENES
A Note
3(4)
Elizabeth Kolbert
Success (On Jackie Robinson, TV salesman)
7(2)
John Graham
Rex Lardner
Fallout (On radioactive debris)
9(16)
Daniel Lang
Ahab and Nemesis (On Rocky Marciano vs. Archie Moore)
25(14)
A. J. Liebling
Mr. Hunter's Grave (On a Staten Island cemetery)
39(29)
Joseph Mitchell
The Cherubs Are Rumbling (On juvenile gangs)
68(25)
Walter Bernstein
PART TWO ARTISTS & ENTERTAINERS
A Note
93(4)
Rebecca Mead
The Perfect Glow (On Oscar Hammerstein II)
97(15)
Philip Hamburger
Throw the Little Old Lady Down the Stairs! (On John Huston and the making of The Red Badge of Courage)
112(24)
Lillian Ross
Humility, Concentration, and Gusto (On Marianne Moore)
136(23)
Winthrop Sargeant
The Duke in His Domain (On Marlon Brando in Kyoto)
159(32)
Truman Capote
A Woman Entering a Taxi in the Rain (On Richard Avedon)
191(22)
Winthrop Sargeant
PART THREE SHIFTING GROUNDS
A Note
213(4)
Jill Lepore
The Foolish Things of the World (On Dorothy Day)
217(21)
Dwight Macdonald
Notes and Comment (On the case against Senator McCarthy)
238(3)
E. B. White
The Psychosemanticist Will See You Now, Mr. Thurber (On fifties jargon)
241(8)
James Thurber
A Meeting in Atlanta (On an NAACP assembly)
249(19)
Bernard Taper
Letter from Chicago (On the Democratic Convention)
268(9)
Richard H. Rovere
Letter from San Francisco (On the Republican Convention)
277(9)
Richard H. Rovere
Letter from Washington (On Eisenhower and Little Rock)
286(9)
Richard H. Rovere
PART FOUR FAR-FLUNG
A Note
295(4)
Evan Osnos
No One but the Glosters (On a Korean War battle)
299(9)
E. J. Kahn, Jr.
The Seventeenth of June (On an uprising in East Germany)
308(21)
Joseph Wechsberg
The Old Boys (On Chiang Kai-shek)
329(17)
Emily Hahn
Letter from Paris (On the Algerian War)
346(4)
Janet Flanner
Letter from Gaza (On refugees in the Strip)
350(8)
A. J. Liebling
Cuban Interlude (On Cuba and its rebels)
358(17)
Norman Lewis
PART FIVE TAKES
A Note
375(4)
Malcolm Gladwell
Characters
Ernest Hemingway
379(2)
Lillian Ross
Jackson Pollock
381(2)
Berton Roueche
Toots Shor
383(4)
John Bainbridge
Harold Ross
387(3)
E. B. White
Sylvester Weaver
390(4)
Thomas Whiteside
Emily Post
394(2)
Geoffrey T. Hellman
Frank Lloyd Wright
396(3)
Geoffrey T. Hellman
Bobby Fischer
399(3)
Bernard Taper
Mort Sahl
402(2)
Whitney Balliett
Leonard Bernstein
404(4)
Robert Rice
Lorraine Hansberry
408(5)
Lillian Ross
Computers
I.B.M.'s New Brain
413(2)
John Brooks
The Nim Machine
415(3)
Rex Lardner
Data Processing Systems
418(2)
John Brooks
Election Results via Univac
420(3)
Philip Hamburger
The Perceptron Simulator
423(2)
Harding Mason
Curious Developments
The Home Freezer
425(2)
Brendan Gill
Jazz Class at Columbia
427(3)
Whitney Balliett
Vaccinating Against Polio
430(2)
John McNulty
Marketing Miltown
432(4)
Thomas Whiteside
Rock `n' Roll's Young Enthusiasts
436(4)
Dwight Macdonald
The Push-Button Phone
440(3)
Harriet Ben Ezra
The Arrival of Videotape
443(3)
Louis P. Forster
The Quiz-Show Scandals
446(7)
John Updike
PART SIX THE CRITICS
A Note
453(6)
Adam Gopnik
Books
The Vision of the Innocent (On The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger)
459(7)
S. N. Behrman
Green on Doting (On Henry Green)
466(4)
V. S. Pritchett
Black Man's Burden (On Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison)
470(5)
Anthony West
The Book-of-the-Millennium Club (On Mortimer Adler's Great Books set)
475(12)
Dwight Macdonald
Doctor Life and His Guardian Angel (On Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak)
487(17)
Edmund Wilson
The Current Cinema
Good Tough Stuff (On On the Waterfront)
504(2)
John McCarten
No Sanctuary (On The 400 Blows)
506(2)
John McCarten
The Theatre
Bouquets, Brickbats, and Obituaries (On Guys and Dolls)
508(2)
Wolcott Gibbs
Something to Remember Us By (On Cat on a Hot Tin Roof)
510(3)
Wolcott Gibbs
Beep the Meem (On Marcel Marceau)
513(2)
Wolcott Gibbs
Shaw with Music (On My Fair Lady)
515(2)
Wolcott Gibbs
Points West (On A Raisin in the Sun)
517(2)
Kenneth Tynan
Cornucopia (On Gypsy)
519(4)
Kenneth Tynan
Television
Peeping Funt (On Candid Camera)
523(2)
Philip Hamburger
Bananas in General (On TV comedians)
525(5)
John Lardner
Thoughts on Radio-Televese (On on-the-air language)
530(4)
John Lardner
Art & Architecture
Extremists (On Jackson Pollock et al)
534(2)
Robert M. Coates
Styles and Personalities (On an Abstract Expressionism show)
536(3)
Robert M. Coates
The Mud Wasps of Manhattan (On tall buildings gone wrong)
539(5)
Lewis Mumford
The Roaring Traffic's Boom (On a congested metropolis)
544(6)
Lewis Mumford
The Lesson of the Master (On the Seagram building)
550(9)
Lewis Mumford
Music
Jazz Records (On Sonny Rollins and Thelonious Monk)
559(2)
Whitney Balliett
Man with a Manner (On Glenn Gould at Carnegie Hall)
561(2)
Winthrop Sargeant
Jazz Records (On Coleman Hawkins)
563(8)
Whitney Balliett
PART SEVEN POETRY
A Note
571(3)
Paul Muldoon
Boy at the Window
574(1)
Richard Wilbur
Frau Bauman, Frau Schmidt, and Frau Schwartze
574(2)
Theodore Roethke
Love for a Hand
576(1)
Karl Shapiro
The Artist
577(1)
William Carlos Williams
Living in Sin
578(1)
Adrienne Cecile Rich
Questions of Travel
579(2)
Elizabeth Bishop
Sparrows
581(1)
Hayden Carruth
First Things First
582(1)
W. H. Auden
Voices from the Other World
583(2)
James Merrill
Mussel Hunter at Rock Harbor
585(3)
Sylvia Plath
Just How Low Can a Highbrow Go When a Highbrow Lowers His Brow?
588(1)
Ogden Nash
The Arctic Ox
589(2)
Marianne Moore
The Goodnight
591(2)
Louis Simpson
Lying Awake
593(1)
W. D. Snodgrass
The Road Back
594(3)
Anne Sexton
PART EIGHT FICTION
A Note
597(4)
Jonathan Franzen
Taste
601(13)
Roald Dahl
No Place for You, My Love
614(18)
Eudora Welty
The Other Paris
632(20)
Mavis Gallant
Six Feet of the Country
652(11)
Nadine Gordimer
Pnin
663(14)
Vladimir Nabokov
The State of Grace
677(10)
Harold Brodkey
The Country Husband
687(24)
John Cheever
The Happiest I've Been
711(14)
John Updike
Defender of the Faith
725(28)
Philip Roth
Acknowledgments 753(2)
Contributors 755