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English
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A concise assessment of the 27 years between the resignation of Richard Nixon and the election of George W. Bush, weaving together social, cultural, political, economic, and international developments. We meet the era's many memorable figures--most notably, Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton--and explore the "culture wars" where liberals and conservatives appeared to cut the country in two. Patterson describes how, when the Cold War finally ended, Americans...
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[2012]
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English
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Patterson traces the events of the transformative year of 1965, showing how they dramatically reshaped the nation and reset the course of American life. President Johnson secured an avalanche of Great Society legislation in 1965, including Medicare, immigration reform, and a powerful Voting Rights Act. But the sense of harmony he espoused in January dissipated over the course of the year. 1965 marked the birth of "The Sixties," when American society...
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Pub. Date
c2010
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English
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In 1965, having just passed major civil-rights laws, President Johnson spoke at Howard University asserting that those laws were not enough to guarantee equality. Johnson's war on poverty lost out to the real war in Vietnam even as domestic unrest grew into riots and white conservatives resisted any efforts to further address issues of racial inequality. Against that backdrop Daniel Patrick Moynihan, then an assistant secretary of labor, issued a...
