TY - BOOK AU - Patterson,James T. TI - Restless giant: the United States from Watergate to Bush v. Gore SN - 0195305221 AV - E839 .P38 2005 U1 - 973.92 22 PY - 2005/// CY - Oxford, New York PB - Oxford University Press KW - United States KW - History KW - 1945- N1 - 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; Young Adult; Follett Library Resources N2 - 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 UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0514/2005016711.html ER -