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Pulitzer prize-winning writer David Halberstam hosts the six-part documentary David Halberstam's The Fifties. The series disassembles the complicated decade from its paranoid beginning to its violent end. David Halberstam's The Fifties, Vol. 1: The Fear and the Dream introduces the early years with the emergence of a middle class. Babyboomer prosperity sweeps the suburbs as Americans embrace global dominance. However, underneath the calm surface of planned neighborhoods, a menace loomed. The shadow of communism and the Cold War hung over. David Halberstam's The Fifties, Vol. 1: The Fear and the Dream describes the atmosphere which allowed McCarthyism and the real threat of nuclear war.