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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." — Jul 01, 2021 09:32AM
"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." — Jul 01, 2021 09:32AM
“Time flows away like the water in the river. ”
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“We do not receive wisdom, we must discover it for ourselves, after a journey through the wilderness which no one else can make for us, which no one can spare us, for our wisdom is the point of view from which we come at last to regard the world. The lives that you admire, the attitudes that seem noble to you, have not been shaped by a paterfamilias or a schoolmaster, they have sprung from very different beginnings, having been influenced by evil or commonplace that prevailed round them. They represent a struggle and a victory.”
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