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Title: An engrossing overview of an anything-but quiet decade.
Review: David Halberstam has provided the reading public with a highly readable and informative narrative of a decade that both chronologically and curturally gave birth to the last half of the 20th century. The author packs each self-contained chapter with wonderful vignettes,facts,fascinating observations, and biographical sketches that bring his subjects to life. My one disappointment in this book was the author's curious overlooking of the religious landscape of the 50's. One would have thought that figures such as Billy Graham, Fulton Sheen, Norman Vicent Peale, Popes Pius XII and John XXIII, the events leading up to and the calling of the Second Vatican Council as well as the explosive growth of church and synagogue attendance would have warranted a chapter in this otherwise engrossing book.
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