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Restless giant : the United States from Watergate to Bush v. Gore / James T. Patterson.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: The Oxford history of the United StatesPublication details: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.Description: xiii, 448 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0195305221
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 973.92 22
LOC classification:
  • E839 .P38 2005
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Contents:
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.
Summary: 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.
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Non Fiction MVS Library Main room-Teen/Adult B- Nonfiction (Teen/Adult) 973.92 Pat (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 402779

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.

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