Necessary American Fictions Popular Literature of the 1950's

William Darby gives us a comprehensive and (mostly) sympathetic reading of over fifty novels and a few movies from the 1950s. He examines titles such as "Mandingo, The Invisible Man, I the Jury, Catcher in the Rye, Battle Cry, The Caine Mutiny, The Revolt of Mamie Stover, The Manchurian Candidate, Hawaii, The Bramble Bush, Peyton Place, Ten North Frederick, A Stone for Danny Fisher, The Bad Seed, Not as a Stranger, The Blackboard Jungle, From Here to Eternity, "and" Compulsion. "Darby, William is the author of 'Necessary American Fictions Popular Literature of the 1950's' with ISBN 9780879723897 and ISBN 0879723890.