Restless Giant - The United States from Watergate to Bush vs. Gore

Informationen zum Autor James T. Patterson is Ford Foundation Professor of History Emeritus at Brown University. One of the most highly respected historians of contemporary America, he is the author of Grand Expectations: The United States, 1945-1974, which won a Bancroft Prize, and Brown v Board of Education: A Civil Rights Milestone and Its Troubled Legacy. 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. Zusammenfassung Attempts to illuminate the road that the US travelled from the dismal days of the mid-1970s through the hotly contested election of 2000. This volume provides an assessment of the 27 years between the resignation of Richard Nixon and the election of George W Bush, in a narrative that weaves together social, cultural and political developments.

Product details

• Authors: James T Patterson, James T. Patterson, James T. (Professor of History Patterson, Patterson James T.
• Publisher: Oxford University Press Trade
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 24.05.2007
• EAN: 9780195305227
• ISBN: 978-0-19-530522-7
• Dimensions: 153 mm x 225 mm x 32 mm
• Series: Oxford History of the United States; Oxford History of the United S; Oxford History of the United States; Oxford History of the United S
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book; USA; Politik, Zeitgeschichte, Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, HISTORY / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies), Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999