James T. Patterson is Ford Foundation Professor of History at Brown University.
James Patterson has provided a tour d'horizon which unusually is also a Tour de force ... Grand Expectations is an exceptional achievement. There can be little doubt that the volume will become the standard single text on the period. THES A sweeping, meticulous synthesis of 30 years, from unique prosperity and influence to uncertainty and social fragmentation. New York Times Book Review a superb study of the United States from the Truman presidency, when Americans held unbounded expectations about themselves and their country to the cynicism and division when Nixon resigned ... stimulating and highly enjoyable Pascal Donohoe, The Irish Times