James T. Patterson is Ford Foundation Professor of History Emeritus at Brown University. One of the most highly respected historians of contemporary America, he is the author of Grand Expectations: The United States, 1945-1974, which won a Bancroft Prize, and Brown v Board of Education: A Civil Rights Milestone and Its Troubled Legacy.
"This splendid and readable new book is the latest volume in that ambitious series, "The Oxford History of the United States."...Patterson has risen magnificently to the task of describing and analyzing this rich and confused period...Restless Giant is extraordinarily sharp in its repeated references to and use of American popular culture...he is excellent in his coverage of the rise of the ultra-conservative right." Paul Kennedy, Washington Post Book World, 18 September 2006
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