Edmund Wilson’s The Fifties, edited by Leon Edel, is the highly acclaimed fourth volume in the series that began with The Twenties. It is complimented with photographs and journal excerpts of some of the most interesting characters of the decade, including Edna St. Vincent Millay, W.H. Auden, and Vladimir Nabokov.

A giant’s workroom we can wander through, marveling … - Richard Locke, The Wall Street Journal on The Fifties: From Notebooks and Diaries of the Period