The Fifties by David Halberstam is on sale by amazon in the US today only for $1.99
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00AFVEYRY/
I recently finished it and found it excellent. The book deeply examines numerous selected important extended events in the 1950's from a (thoughtful, analytical) American point of view, including stage setting in the 1940's and consequences in the 1960's and beyond. The book was written in the 1990's, but Halberstam was a beginning journalist in the 1950's and still had copious notes from his coverage of the Southern USA at that time. He also interviewed many of the principal participants and observers during his research for the book. A few of the topics explored are war, politics, music, media, population shift, automobile culture, automobile manufacture, diplomacy, and business brand franchising.
As usual for books with x-ray, there are numerous x-ray errors (but a small fraction of the total x-ray content). I am just getting started on documenting and fixing x-ray errors for
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, so I am not sure when I will have the fixes for
The Fifties.