1950s Literature

The Fifties

Era Overview - DISCovering U.S. History. Online Edition. Gale, 2003.

Government and Politics - DISCovering U.S. History. Online Edition. Gale, 2003.

Novels: Historical Contexts

1984, by George Orwell

Catcher in the Rye, by J.D. Salinger

Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury

The Natural, by Bernard Malamud

Slaughterhouse-Five, by Kurt Vonnegut