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

Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley

Catcher in the Rye, by J.D. Salinger

Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury

Handmaid's Tale, by Margaret Atwood

The Natural, by Bernard Malamud

Slaughterhouse-Five, by Kurt Vonnegut