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090	0	0	_aE 173 .O94 1996
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100	1		_aPatterson, James T.
245	1	0	_aGrand expectations : _bthe United States, 1945-1974 / _cJames T. Patterson.
260			_aNew York : _bOxford University Press, _c1996.
300			_axviii, 829 pages : _billustrations, maps ; _c25 cm.
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
490	1		_aThe Oxford history of the United States ; _vv. 10
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 791-802) and index.
505	0		_aAugust 1945 -- Veterans, ethnics, blacks, women -- Unions, liberals, and the state: stalemate -- Booms -- Grand expectations about the world -- Hardening of the Cold War, 1945-1948 -- Domestic politics: Truman's first term -- Red scares abroad and at home -- Korea -- Ike -- World affairs, 1953-1956 -- The biggest boom yet -- Mass consumer culture -- Race -- A center holds, more or less, 1957-1960 -- The polarized sixties: an overview -- The new frontier at home -- JFK and the world -- Lyndon Johnson and American liberalism -- A great society and the rise of rights-consciousness -- Escalation in Vietnam -- Rights, polarization, and backlash, 1966-1967 -- The most turbulent year: 1968 -- Rancor and Richard Nixon -- Nixon, Vietnam, and the world, 1969-1974 -- End of an era? : expectations amid Watergate and recession.
520			_aBeginning in 1945, America rocketed through a quarter-century of extraordinary economic growth, experiencing a boom that soared to unimaginable heights in the 1960s. It was a boom that produced a national euphoria, a time of grand expectations and an unprecedented faith in our government, in our leaders, and in the American dream, an optimistic spirit which would be shaken by events in the '60s and '70s, and particularly by the Vietnam War. Now, in this volume the author has written a work that weaves the major political, cultural, and economic events of the period into a portrait of America from 1945 through Watergate. He portrays the amazing growth after World War II, the great building boom epitomized by Levittown (the largest such development in history) and the baby boom (which exploded literally nine months after V-J Day), as well as the resultant buoyancy of spirit reflected in everything from streamlined toasters, to big, flashy cars, to the soaring, butterfly roof of TWA's airline terminal in New York. And he shows how this upbeat, can-do mood spurred grander and grander expectations as the era progressed. Of course, not all Americans shared in this economic growth, and an important thread running through the book is a depiction of the civil rights movement, from the Brown v. Board of Education decision, to the confrontations in Little Rock, Birmingham, and Selma, to the civil rights acts of 1964 and 1965. The author also shows how the Vietnam War, which provoked LBJ's growing credibility gap, vast defense spending that dangerously unsettled the economy, and increasingly angry protests, and a growing rights revolution triggered a backlash that widened hidden rifts in our society, rifts that divided along racial, class, and generational lines. And by Nixon's resignation, we find a national mood in stark contrast to the grand expectations of ten years earlier, one in which faith in our leaders and in the attainability of the American dream was becoming shaken.
586			_aBancroft Prize, 1997.
651		0	_aUnited States _xHistory _y1945-
650		0	_aSocial change _zUnited States _xHistory _y20th century.
651		0	_aUnited States _xPolitics and government _y20th century.
651		0	_aUnited States _xEconomic conditions _y20th century.
650		7	_aEconomic history. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst00901974
650		7	_aPolitical science. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst01069781
650		7	_aSocial change. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst01122310
651		7	_aUnited States. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst01204155
651		7	_a�Etats-Unis _xHistoire _y1945 _x... _2ram
651		7	_aUSA. _2swd
648		7	_aSince 1900 _2fast
653	0		_aUnited States _aHistory, 1945-1974.
655		7	_aHistory. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst01411628
776	0	8	_iOnline version: _aPatterson, James T. _tGrand expectations. _dNew York : Oxford University Press, 1996 _w(OCoLC)605105011
830		0	_aOxford history of the United States ; _vv. 10.
856	4	2	_3Contributor biographical information _uhttp://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0725/95013878-b.html
856	4	2	_3Publisher description _uhttp://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0638/95013878-d.html
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