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Informationen zum Autor James T. Patterson is the author of Grand Expectations: The United States 1945-1974, for which he won the Bancroft Prize in history, and numerous other books, including Brown V. Board: A Civil Rights Milestone and Its Troubled Legacy. He was Ford Foundation Professor of History (Emeritus) at Brown University and the recipient of numerous fellowships and honors, including the Harmsworth professorship at the University of Oxford. Klappentext In the final chronological volume of his acclaimed series! Patterson again offers an authoritative and vibrant history of a turbulent period in American life: the 27 years between the resignation of Richard Nixon and the election of George W. Bush. "This splendid and readable new book is the latest volume in that ambitious series, "The Oxford History of the United States."...Patterson has risen magnificently to the task of describing and analyzing this rich and confused period...Restless Giant is extraordinarily sharp in its repeated references to and use of American popular culture...he is excellent in his coverage of the rise of the ultra-conservative right." Paul Kennedy, Washington Post Book World, 18 September 2006 Zusammenfassung Restless Giant is a magisterial interpretation of American history between 1974, when the Watergate crisis imperiled the nation, and November 2000, when the bitterly contested presidential election marked an all-time low in confidence in the electoral process.
