GRAND EXPECTATIONS by James T Patterson UNABRIDGE PT1&2

This is an UNABRIDGED audio book read by Bill Kelsey. There are 25 cassettes totaling 37.5 hrs of listening. THIS IS NOT A LIBRARY RENTAL WHERE IT WAS BEAT UP AND RENTED A THOUSAND TIMES! Its from a Private collection THIS IS AN ACTUAL PICTURE of the book taken the day it was listed so you can see the condition (not a stock photo) or no photo hiding its true condition. It is in excellent shape in and out. Thanks for your time. (-:

COMPARE TO LIBRARY COPY AT AMAZON AT $49.95 FOR PART TWO. YOU CANT BECAUSE THESE ITEMS ARE IN MUCH BETTER CONDITION (LIKE NEW) 



 
From Publishers Weekly
In a continuously challenging, stirring history of postwar America, Brown University history professor Patterson charts Americans' ever-widening postwar expectations about the capacity of the U.S. to create abundance and opportunity. Spurred by the civil rights movement's egalitarianism and idealism, many groups?including labor unions, feminists, Native and Hispanic Americans, farm organizations, the poor and the elderly?engaged in a "rights evolution" that peaked in the mid-1980s amid political backlash, economic stagnation and barriers of class and prejudice. A corollary theme is the souring of the widespread belief that the U.S. had the economic and military means to control the behavior of other nations. Bursting with shrewd analyses and fresh assessments of people and events (McCarthyism, the Beats, the growth of suburbia, Vietnam, etc.), Patterson's primarily political but also cultural and social history gores both liberal and conservative sacred cows. He blames John F. Kennedy's personal approach to foreign affairs for escalating tension with the Soviet Union. And he describes Nixon as "a very humorless, tightly controlled man" who set the FBI to destroy the Black Panthers and who "put in 12- to 16-hour days, in part because he was unable to delegate authority."
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.