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title: "Restless Giant: The United States from Watergate to Bush v. Gore"
brand: "james t patterson"
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# Comprehensive History Decade Coverage In-depth Analysis Restless Giant: The United States from Watergate to Bush v. Gore

**Brand:** james t patterson
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## Summary

> 📖 Unlock the Secrets of Modern America!

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- **What is this?** Restless Giant: The United States from Watergate to Bush v. Gore by james t patterson
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## Key Features

- • **Expert Insights:** Gain perspectives from leading historians.
- • **Cultural Context:** Understand the societal shifts that shaped America.
- • **Timely Relevance:** Connect historical events to today's political landscape.
- • **Unravel the Past:** Dive deep into pivotal moments in U.S. history.
- • **Engaging Narrative:** Experience history through compelling storytelling.

## Overview

Restless Giant: The United States from Watergate to Bush v. Gore offers a thorough exploration of the political and cultural transformations in America from the Watergate scandal through the contentious 2000 election, providing readers with a rich understanding of the forces that have shaped contemporary society.

## Description

In Restless Giant, acclaimed historical author James Patterson provides a crisp, concise assessment of the twenty-seven years between the resignation of Richard Nixon and the election of George W. Bush in a sweeping narrative that seamlessly weaves together social, cultural, political, economic, and international developments. We meet the era's many memorable figures and explore the "culture wars" between liberals and conservatives that appeared to split the country in two.Patterson describes how America began facing bewildering developments in places such as Panama, Somalia, Bosnia, and Iraq, and discovered that it was far from easy to direct the outcome of global events, and at times even harder for political parties to reach a consensus over what attempts should be made. At the same time, domestic issues such as the persistence of racial tensions, high divorce rates, alarm over crime, and urban decay led many in the media to portray the era as one of decline. Patterson offers a more positive perspective, arguing that, despite our often unmet expectations, we were in many ways better off than we thought. By 2000, most Americans lived more comfortably than they had in the 1970s, and though bigotry and discrimination were far from extinct, a powerful rights consciousness insured that these were less pervasive in American life than at any time in the past.With insightful analyses and engaging prose, Restless Giant captures this period of American history in a way that no other book has, illuminating the road that the United States traveled from the dismal days of the mid-1970s through the hotly contested election of 2000.  The Oxford History of the United States The Oxford History of the United States is the most respected multi-volume history of our nation. The series includes three Pulitzer Prize winners, a New York Times bestseller, and winners of the Bancroft and Parkman Prizes. The Atlantic Monthly has praised it as "the most distinguished series in American historical scholarship," a series that "synthesizes a generation's worth of historical inquiry and knowledge into one literally state-of-the-art book." Conceived under the general editorship of C. Vann Woodward and Richard Hofstadter, and now under the editorship of David M. Kennedy, this renowned series blends social, political, economic, cultural, diplomatic, and military history into coherent and vividly written narrative.

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- Restless Giant: The United States from Watergate to Bush v. Gore (Oxford History of the United States)

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