James T. Patterson.
Grand Expectations: The United States, 1945-1974.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1996.
Book Information: Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.
Book series: Oxford History of the United States.
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Author Information:
- James T. Patterson (b. 1935), Wikipedia.
- James T. Patterson, C-SPAN.org.
- James T. Patterson. Mr. Republican: A Biography of Robert A. Taft. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1972.
[Google Books; Amazon.com.] - James T. Patterson, editor. Paths to the Present: Interpretive Essays on American History since 1930. Minneapolis, Minnesota: Burgess Publishing Company, 1975.
[Google Books; Amazon.com.] - James T. Patterson. America’s Struggle against Poverty in the Twentieth Century. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2000.
[Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.] - James T. Patterson. Brown v. Board of Education: A Civil Rights Milestone and Its Troubled Legacy. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001.
[Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.] - James T. Patterson. Restless Giant: The United States from Watergate to Bush v. Gore. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005.
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My post on Restless Giant is here. - James T. Patterson. Freedom Is Not Enough: The Moynihan Report and America's Struggle over Black Family Life--from LBJ to Obama. New York: Basic Books (Hachette Book Group), 2010.
[Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.] - James T. Patterson. The Eve of Destruction: How 1965 Transformed America. New York: Basic Books (Hachette Book Group), 2012.
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My post on The Eve of Destruction is here.
Video: James T. Patterson
- James T. Patterson, "U.S. in the 1940s, 50s and 60s," Brown University, C-SPAN.org, 24 May 1997.
Books mentioned in Patterson's talk:- Thomas Hine. Populuxe. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1986. New York: The Overlook Press, 2007.
[Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.] - David M. Potter. People of Plenty: Economic Abundance and the American Character. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1954.
[Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.] - John Kenneth Galbraith. The Affluent Society. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1958.
[Publisher; Wikipedia; Google Books; Amazon.com.] - Gunnar Myrdal and others. An American Dilemma: The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1944. London: Routledge, 2017.
[Publisher; Wikipedia; Google Books; Amazon.com, volume 1.] - Nicholas Lemann. The Promised Land: The Great Black Migration and How It Changed America. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1991. New York: Vintage Books, 1992.
[Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.] - Marty Jezer. The Dark Ages: Life in the United States 1945-1960. Cambridge, Massachusetts: South End Press, 1982.
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- Thomas Hine. Populuxe. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1986. New York: The Overlook Press, 2007.
- James T. Patterson, "Grand Expectations: The United States 1945-1974," The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, New York City, 199x.
Other Video:
- Tupperware!, American Experience, PBS, 2004.
A view of the U.S. during the 1940s and 1950s. - See my post on Farber, The Age of Great Dreams: America in the 1960s (1994) which has links to videos of U.S. history lectures on many subjects (Social History, Cold War, Vietnam War, Civil Rights, Economic History) relevant to the period of Patterson's book.
Wikipedia Articles:
- History of the United States (1945–1964).
- History of the United States (1964–1980).
- Post–World War II economic expansion.