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

James Patterson's Bancroft Prize-winning Grand Expectations, the penultimate volume in the Oxford History of the United States, was hailed by The New York Times as ""a spirited, sprawling narrative of American life"" and by The Wall Street Journal as ""a tour de fo...

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Tác giả chính: Patterson, James T.
Định dạng: Licensed eBooks
Ngôn ngữ:Tiếng Anh
Được phát hành: New York : Oxford University Press, ©2005.
Loạt:Oxford history of the United States.
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Mục lục:
  • The troubled 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.