Eisenhower Babies: Growing Up on Moonshots, Comic Books, and Black-and-White TV

Eisenhower Babies takes readers on a journey to a time when World War II memories were still relatively fresh, space exploration was becoming more than just fantastical subject matter for science fiction, and television had barged its way into American homes, taking up permanent residence in a hallowed spot in front of the living room sofa.

Among the millions of Eisenhower Babies who burst on the scene from January 1953 to January 1961 was Ronnie Blair. His memoir of growing up in a Kentucky coal-mining community from the late 1950s to the early 1970s weaves history, popular culture, and geography into a nostalgic journey interspersed with tales of coal-strike tensions and humorous family adventures. Eisenhower Babies is a celebration of the eccentricities of 1960s small-town life, where a police officer might promise to give a four-year-old his gun once the officer ran out of bullets, a neighbor could return from a Florida vacation with a live baby alligator as a new pet, and the children of World War II veterans waged imaginary battles against Hitler’s treachery in their hillside backyards.

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Eisenhower Babies: Growing Up on Moonshots, Comic Books, and Black-and-White TV

Eisenhower Babies takes readers on a journey to a time when World War II memories were still relatively fresh, space exploration was becoming more than just fantastical subject matter for science fiction, and television had barged its way into American homes, taking up permanent residence in a hallowed spot in front of the living room sofa.

Among the millions of Eisenhower Babies who burst on the scene from January 1953 to January 1961 was Ronnie Blair. His memoir of growing up in a Kentucky coal-mining community from the late 1950s to the early 1970s weaves history, popular culture, and geography into a nostalgic journey interspersed with tales of coal-strike tensions and humorous family adventures. Eisenhower Babies is a celebration of the eccentricities of 1960s small-town life, where a police officer might promise to give a four-year-old his gun once the officer ran out of bullets, a neighbor could return from a Florida vacation with a live baby alligator as a new pet, and the children of World War II veterans waged imaginary battles against Hitler’s treachery in their hillside backyards.

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Eisenhower Babies: Growing Up on Moonshots, Comic Books, and Black-and-White TV

Eisenhower Babies: Growing Up on Moonshots, Comic Books, and Black-and-White TV

by Ronnie Blair
Eisenhower Babies: Growing Up on Moonshots, Comic Books, and Black-and-White TV

Eisenhower Babies: Growing Up on Moonshots, Comic Books, and Black-and-White TV

by Ronnie Blair

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Eisenhower Babies takes readers on a journey to a time when World War II memories were still relatively fresh, space exploration was becoming more than just fantastical subject matter for science fiction, and television had barged its way into American homes, taking up permanent residence in a hallowed spot in front of the living room sofa.

Among the millions of Eisenhower Babies who burst on the scene from January 1953 to January 1961 was Ronnie Blair. His memoir of growing up in a Kentucky coal-mining community from the late 1950s to the early 1970s weaves history, popular culture, and geography into a nostalgic journey interspersed with tales of coal-strike tensions and humorous family adventures. Eisenhower Babies is a celebration of the eccentricities of 1960s small-town life, where a police officer might promise to give a four-year-old his gun once the officer ran out of bullets, a neighbor could return from a Florida vacation with a live baby alligator as a new pet, and the children of World War II veterans waged imaginary battles against Hitler’s treachery in their hillside backyards.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781642255416
Publisher: Advantage Media Group, Inc.
Publication date: 01/03/2023
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 176
File size: 4 MB

Table of Contents

PREFACE

In the Shadow of Black Mountain
Hoot Gibson, Red Man Tobacco, and My Father
Bedtime Prayers, Seventeen Little Bears, and My Mother
The Valley of the Poor Fork of the Cumberland
A Hoosier Interlude
The Houses That Built Me
Sixteen Tons—and Then Some
Dad Goes to War
Rodney
The Alligator Next Door
I Borrow a Pony
Purple-Ink Journalism, Supreme Court Rulings, and Other School Happenings
Mickey Mouse, King Kong, and Other Thirty-Five-Cent Celluloid Escapades
The Church That Bore My Family Name
Space Ghost Goes Trick-or-Treating
Nights before Christmas, Shepherd Mishaps, and a Missing Johnny Seven
Thrilling Trips and Backseat Nausea
Brought to You by Kellogg’s—and a Cable Antenna atop Black Mountain
Roy Rogers, a Battered Broom, and Me
The Supermarket That Swallowed a Baseball Field
The Architect, the Engineer, and the Mumps
Hanna-Barbera, Saturday Mornings, and a Boston Mother Who Ruined Everything
The Case of the Relentless Reader
The World Intrudes
Dear Comic Book Editor
The Homesick Trumpeter Blues
Coal Mine, Moonshine, or Move It On down the Line

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
BIBLIOGRAPHY
ABOUT THE AUTHOR

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