Grand Expectations: The United States, 1945-1974 by James T. Patterson (English)

Description: Grand Expectations by James T. Patterson Estimated delivery 4-14 business days Format Paperback Condition Brand New Description James T. Patterson skilfully weaves together political, social, cultural, and economic history to present a fascinating survey of postwar America. Publisher Description Beginning in 1945, America rocketed through a quarter-century of extraordinary economic growth, experiencing an amazing boom that soared to unimaginable heights in the 1960s. At one point, in the late 1940s, American workers produced 57 percent of the planets steel, 62 percent of the oil, 80 percent of the automobiles. The U.S. then had three-fourths of the worlds gold supplies. English Prime Minister Edward Heath later said that the United States in the post-Warera enjoyed "the greatest prosperity the world has ever known." It was a boom that produced a national euphoria, a buoyant time of grand expectations and an unprecedented faith in our government, inour leaders, and in the American dream--an optimistic spirit which would be shaken by events in the 60s and 70s, and particularly by the Vietnam War.Now, in Grand Expectations, James T. Patterson has written a highly readable and balanced work that weaves the major political, cultural, and economic events of the period into a superb portrait of America from 1945 through Watergate. Here is an era teeming with memorable events--from the bloody campaigns in Koreaand the bitterness surrounding McCarthyism to the assassinations of the Kennedys and Martin Luther King, to the Vietnam War, Watergate, and Nixons resignation. Patterson excels at portraying the amazing growthafter World War II--the great building boom epitomized by Levittown (the largest such development in history) and the baby boom (which exploded literally nine months after V-J Day)--as well as the resultant buoyancy of spirit reflected in everything from streamlined toasters, to big, flashy cars, to the soaring, butterfly roof of TWAs airline terminal in New York. And he shows how this upbeat, can-do mood spurred grander and grander expectations as the era progressed.Ofcourse, not all Americans shared in this economic growth, and an important thread running through the book is an informed and gripping depiction of the civil rights movement--from the electrifying Brownv. Board of Education decision, to the violent confrontations in Little Rock, Birmingham, and Selma, to the landmark civil rights acts of 1964 and 1965. Patterson also shows how the Vietnam War--which provoked LBJs growing credibility gap, vast defense spending that dangerously unsettled the economy, and increasingly angry protests--and a growing rights revolution (including demands by women, Hispanics, the poor, Native Americans, and gays) triggered a backlash that widened hiddenrifts in our society, rifts that divided along racial, class, and generational lines. And by Nixons resignation, we find a national mood in stark contrast to the grand expectations of ten years earlier, one inwhich faith in our leaders and in the attainability of the American dream was greatly shaken.The Oxford History of the United StatesThe Oxford History of the United States is the most respected multi-volume history of our nation. The series includes three Pulitzer Prize winners, a New York Times bestseller, and winners of the Bancroft and Parkman Prizes. The Atlantic Monthly has praised it as "the most distinguished series inAmerican historical scholarship," a series that "synthesizes a generations worth of historical inquiry and knowledge into one literally state-of-the-art book." Conceived under the general editorship of C. Vann Woodward and RichardHofstadter, and now under the editorship of David M. Kennedy, this renowned series blends social, political, economic, cultural, diplomatic, and military history into coherent and vividly written narrative. Author Biography James T. Patterson is Ford Foundation Professor of History at Brown University. Details ISBN 0195117972 ISBN-13 9780195117974 Title Grand Expectations Author James T. Patterson Format Paperback Year 1998 Pages 848 Edition 10th Publisher Oxford University Press Inc GE_Item_ID:1073802; About Us Grand Eagle Retail is the ideal place for all your shopping needs! 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