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This book is dense with detail and constant historical name-dropping, so if you don't know who or what somebody or something is, you'll need to stop and research it. A minor inconvenience, to be sure, but Halberstam makes the constant Googling worth your while. It's definitely not a casual read, nor is it a reference book; it's somewhere smack-dab in the middle. The Fifties is informative and dryly entertaining.