Restless giant :
Patterson, James T.
Restless giant : the United States from Watergate to Bush v. Gore / James T. Patterson. - Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005. - xiii, 448 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm. - The Oxford history of the United States .
Includes bibliographical references (p. 427-435) and index.
The troubled late 1970's -- Sex, families, stagflation -- The political world of the mid-1970s -- Carter, Reagan, and the rise of the right -- "Morning again in America" -- America and the world in the 1980's -- Bush 41 -- "Culture wars" and "decline" in the 1990's -- Immigration, multiculturalism, race -- Political wars of the early Clinton years -- Prosperity, partisanship, terrorism -- Impeachment and electoral crisis, 1998-2000.
Library Journal, August 2005 New York Times, November 2005
Examines the social, cultural, political, economic, and international developments in the twenty-seven years between the resignation of Richard Nixon and the election of George W. Bush, and describes the culture wars between liberals and conservatives, the Religious Right, events in Panama, Somalia, Bosnia, and Iraq, and much more.
Young Adult Follett Library Resources
0195305221
2005016711
E839 / .P38 2005
973.92
Restless giant : the United States from Watergate to Bush v. Gore / James T. Patterson. - Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005. - xiii, 448 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm. - The Oxford history of the United States .
Includes bibliographical references (p. 427-435) and index.
The troubled late 1970's -- Sex, families, stagflation -- The political world of the mid-1970s -- Carter, Reagan, and the rise of the right -- "Morning again in America" -- America and the world in the 1980's -- Bush 41 -- "Culture wars" and "decline" in the 1990's -- Immigration, multiculturalism, race -- Political wars of the early Clinton years -- Prosperity, partisanship, terrorism -- Impeachment and electoral crisis, 1998-2000.
Library Journal, August 2005 New York Times, November 2005
Examines the social, cultural, political, economic, and international developments in the twenty-seven years between the resignation of Richard Nixon and the election of George W. Bush, and describes the culture wars between liberals and conservatives, the Religious Right, events in Panama, Somalia, Bosnia, and Iraq, and much more.
Young Adult Follett Library Resources
0195305221
2005016711
E839 / .P38 2005
973.92