Grand Expectations

副标题: The United States, 1945-1974

ISBN: 9780195117974

出版社: Oxford University Press, USA

出版年: 1997-11-20

页数: 829

定价: USD 27.95

装帧: Paperback

内容简介

Part of the multivolume Oxford History of the United States, Grand Expectations spotlights the United States at the center of the international stage during the post World War II years. The book opens on country very different from the U.S. of today--racial segregation was law and more than half the nation's farm dwellings had no electricity. With England, Germany, and Japan ravaged by war, the U.S. entered a period of prosperity that soared to unimaginable heights in the 1960s. Though Patterson ends his book with the downfall of Nixon and the beginnings of a troubled economy, he concludes that the U.S. in 1974, "remained one of the most stable societies in the world."