James T. Patterson
Author of Grand Expectations: The United States, 1945-1974
About the Author
James T. Patterson is an American historian, and Ford Foundation Professor of History emeritus at Brown University. He wrote "Grand Expectations: the United States, 1945-1974," which received the 1997 Bancroft Prize in American history. (The Bancroft prize is one of the most prestigious honors a show more book of history can received and was established at Columbia University in 1948. It's considered to be on par with the Pulitzer Prize because an anonymous jury of peers judges it.) "Grand Expectations" is an interpretation of the explosive growth, high expectations and unusual optimism that Americans experienced after World War II that went into the 1960's. It follows the social, economic and cultural trends, and foreign policy issues, which became less optimistic after the assassinations, the Vietnam War and Watergate. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
Works by James T. Patterson
Brown v. Board of Education: A Civil Rights Milestone and Its Troubled Legacy (2001) 160 copies, 4 reviews
Freedom Is Not Enough: The Moynihan Report and America's Struggle over Black Family Life from LBJ to Obama (2010) 55 copies, 2 reviews
Congressional Conservatism and the New Deal: The Growth of the Conservative Coalition in Congress, 1933-1939 (1967) 19 copies
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- 1935-01-01
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