Any book recommendations set in 1950s New York and Boston/post-WWII America

[Maseeha.Aellari]

I can't really find anything online about life in 1950s America. There's some brief stuff on the price of fuel and bread, but I can't find much information about orphanages and cancer treatment. Two very different and specific topics but extremely important.

Thanks for your help!

 

[BAYLOR]

The 50's by David Halberstram

 

[hitmouse]

For a US- centric history of cancer treatment try The Emperor of All Maladies by Siddharta Mukherjee.

there must be untold quantities of history/reportage/film/photograpy/fiction covering the era you want, both specifically and generally. Cannot believe it is that difficult to find.

 

[Extollager]

Here are some leads for you:

The Home: A Memoir of Growing Up in an Orphanage: Richard McKenzie: 9781880741313: Amazon.com: Books

The Home: A Memoir of Growing Up in an Orphanage [Richard McKenzie] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. The Home: A Memoir of Growing Up in an Orphanage

www.amazon.com

Decline of the American Orphanage, 1941-1980 on JSTOR

Marshall B. Jones, Decline of the American Orphanage, 1941-1980, Social Service Review, Vol. 67, No. 3, Altruism (Sep., 1993), pp. 459-480

www.jstor.org

Johns Hopkins Magazine - April 1996 Issue

The Success Story of Orphanages - Washington Examiner

Tina Rosenberg, a former editorial writer for the New York Times, has sought to convince “volunteer tourists” from wealthy countries that when they work in orphanages in low-income African and Latin American countries, they are “perpetuat[ing] a harmful system” and inadvertently leaving the...

www.washingtonexaminer.com

 

[Guttersnipe]

Eloise by Kay Thompson
Brooklyn by Colm Tóibín
All That Is by James Salter
Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote
The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger

 

[sknox]

Yeah, there's a huge repository of stuff, both fiction and non-fiction. You aren't going to find it online. Books. Movies as a supplement, but books first. You have many, many hours of research ahead of you. And yet, it will be fun. Oh, and music, too. Love I.G.Y by Steely Dan and you need to know what that acronym means. Not just expanded, but what it *meant*.

 

[Maseeha.Aellari]

Thanks everyone!
I'm going to chain myself to my desk for a few months. See you after hibernation