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Good-by to the 'fifties—and good riddance:
The Stuffy Decade produced some of the most wonderful nonsense in history—but why didn't anybody laugh?

By Eric Frederick Goldman



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SEE ALSO: American wit and humor; 1945-1960; 1953-1961; Nineteen fifties
Response: March 1960, page 4 · March 1960, page 4 · March 1960, page 4
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AUGUST 2008

THE WRECKING CREW
How a Gang of Right-Wing Con Men Destroyed Washington and Made a Killing
By Thomas Frank

THE MANDARINS
American Foreign Policy, Brought to You by China
By Ken Silverstein

JACK
A story by Marilynne Robinson

Also: WILLIAM H. GASS on Henry James

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