Recommendation for books/documents about 1950s America?

I thought that “The Fifties” (ISBN 9780679415596) By David Halberstam was an excellent book about the 1950s .
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I don;t know how many libraries still have their bound volumes of old magazines, but if you can find them, Life magazine would be a great start.

Update: I just found that Google books has all the issues from 1935 to 1972. But if you can find paper copies, it’s a lot better. It was large format, and they had a fantastic staff of photographers.

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I think it’s no longer considered politically correct but I loved reading Black Like Me when I was a kid.
I think The Outsiders was from that time period too.

Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates
America in the 1950s (The Decades of Twentieth-Century America) by Charles A. Wills
Containment: Documents on American Policy and Strategy, 1945–1950 by Thomas H. Etzold

http://www.austinchronicle.com/gyrobase/m/Issue?oid=155454

http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0313361606/ref=redir_mdp_mobile?pc_redir=1385372712

You didn’t say what about the 1950’s you wanted to read about.

@Unbroken Sorry. I should have mentioned it. I want to know about the 1950’s life and culture (what people wear, behave… things like that)