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.................19424$ FRON 07-23-2012:46:52 PS PAGEa .................19424$ FRON 07-23-2012:51:37 PS PAGEb 1957 .................19424$ $$FM 07-23-2011:42:49 PS PAGEi Alsoby EricBurns NONFICTION BroadcastBlues:DispatchesfromtheTwenty-YearWarBetween aTelevisionReporterandHisMedium TheJoyofBooks:ConfessionsofaLifelongReader TheSpiritsofAmerica:ASocialHistoryofAlcohol InfamousScribblers:TheFoundingFathersandtheRowdy BeginningsofAmericanJournalism TheSmokeoftheGods:ASocialHistoryofTobacco AlltheNewsUnfittoPrint:HowThingsWere...and HowTheyWereReported Virtue,ValorandVanity:TheFoundingFathersandthePursuitofFame InvasionoftheMindSnatchers:Television’sConquestof AmericaintheFifties 1920:TheYearThatMadetheDecadeRoar TheGoldenLad:TheHauntingStoryofQuentinandTheodoreRoosevelt SomeonetoWatchOverMe:EleanorRooseveltandtheTorturedFather WhoShapedHerLife ThePoliticsofFame FICTION TheAutograph:AModernFableofaFatherandaDaughter Mid-Strut:ANovel .................19424$ $$FM 07-23-2011:42:49 PS PAGEii 1957 The Year That Launched the American Future Eric Burns ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD PUBLISHERS, INC. Lanham•Boulder•NewYork•London .................19424$ $$FM 07-23-2011:42:49 PS PAGEiii AnimprintofTheRowman&LittlefieldPublishingGroup,Inc. 4501ForbesBlvd.,Ste.200 Lanham,MD20706 www.rowman.com DistributedbyNATIONALBOOKNETWORK Copyright(cid:2)2020byTheRowman&LittlefieldPublishingGroup,Inc. Allrightsreserved.Nopartofthisbookmaybereproducedinanyformorbyany electronicormechanicalmeans,includinginformationstorageandretrieval systems,withoutwrittenpermissionfromthepublisher,exceptbyareviewerwho mayquotepassagesinareview. BritishLibraryCataloguinginPublicationInformationavailable LibraryofCongressControlNumber:2020940214 ISBN:978-1-5381-3995-0(cloth:alk.paper) ISBN:978-1-5381-4069-7(electronic) (cid:3)(cid:2)(cid:4) Thepaperusedinthispublicationmeetstheminimumrequirementsof AmericanNationalStandardforInformationSciences—PermanenceofPaperfor PrintedLibraryMaterials,ANSI/NISOZ39.48-1992 .................19424$ $$FM 07-23-2011:42:49 PS PAGEiv To my favorite male companion, To his favorite female companion, And to their joint effort .................19424$ $$FM 07-23-2011:42:49 PS PAGEv .................19424$ $$FM 07-23-2011:42:50 PS PAGEvi Contents Prologue:Sputnik1 1 PARTONE ChapterOne:TheMadBomberofNewYork 15 ChapterTwo:TheCommittee 29 ChapterThree:FromApalachintoHavana 46 PARTTWO ChapterFour:HighwaystoEverywhere 87 ChapterFive:TheDesignofanEra 94 ChapterSix:TheVaginaintheGrille 100 ChapterSeven:HighwaystoNowhere 110 PARTTHREE ChapterEight:BlacksagainstWhites 119 ChapterNine:WhiteswithBlacks 140 PARTFOUR ChapterTen:MovingStories 163 ChapterEleven:TheManWhoBelievedinGod 184 ChapterTwelve:TheWomanWhoBelievedinMan 194 ChapterThirteen:GangWarsonBroadway 207 ChapterFourteen:TheYoungestMonster 215 PARTFIVE ChapterFifteen:TheSuccessesofFailure 229 ChapterSixteen:Muttnik 235 vii .................19424$ CNTS 07-23-2011:42:53 PS PAGEvii