With the American economy fully recovered from World War II (1939–45), business in the 1950s was booming. With a gross national product (also called the GNP; the sum of goods and services produced in the country) of $284.6 billion, the United...

The 1950s are noted in United States history as a time of both compliance and conformity and also, to a lesser extent, of rebellion. Major U.S. events during the decade...

Alan G. Fetrow. Jefferson: McFarland, 1998. 712 pp. $72.50 cloth. Documenting 3,075 films released or copyrighted between 1950 and 1959, this third volume in Alan Fetrow's U.S. filmography series follows Sound Films, 1927-1939 (1992) and Feature Films, 1940-1949(1994). Fetrow casts a wide...

Hubert Zimmerman, Cambridge University Press, New York, 2002, 275 pages, $45.00. Normally, monetary policy is not discussed in the same breath as military force structuring, but as Hubert Zimmerman, an Assistant Professor of International Relations at Ruhr-University argues in Money and Security:...

A man who fled the U.S. for Israel more than two decades ago amid accusations he sexually abused children while pretending to be a rabbi and psychologist appeared in court in Jerusalem — a step toward his possible extradition.Abraham Mondrowitz, 60, a member of the...

A man who fled the U.S. for Israel more than two decades ago amid accusations he sexually abused children while pretending to be a rabbi and psychologist appeared in court in Jerusalem — a step toward his possible extradition.Abraham Mondrowitz, 60, a member of the...