James T. Patterson (historian)

James T. Patterson

James Tyler Patterson (* 1935 ) is an American historian and professor at Brown University . It deals with the history of America especially in the 20th century.

His father, J. Tyler Patterson, sat in the Connecticut House of Representatives and was intermittent its spokesman. James Patterson graduated from Williams College with a bachelor's degree in 1957 and then worked as a journalist with the Hartford Courant . In 1960 he continued his studies at Harvard University , where he received his master's degree (MA) in 1961 and his doctorate in 1964. He then taught at Indiana University and was professor at Brown University from 1972. In 2002 he was retired as Ford Foundation Professor .

After initially dealing with political history such as the New Deal , he later turned more to social history, such as the fight against poverty in America, the social upheavals of the 1960s, the social situation of African Americans and cancer in American culture. He is also known for his two volumes on post-war history in the United States in the Oxford History of the United States series .

In 1968 he was a Guggenheim Fellow . In 1997 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .

Fonts

• Congressional Conservatism and the New Deal: The Growth of the Conservative Coalition in Congress, 1933-1939. University of Kentucky Press 1966 (received the Frederick Jackson Turner Award), reprint 2008.
• The New Deal and the States: Federalism in Transition. Princeton University Press 1969.
• Mr. Republican: A Biography of Robert A. Taft . Houghton Mifflin, Boston 1972.
• America in the twentieth century: a history. 3rd edition, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 1989.
• Grand expectations: the United States, 1945-1974. Oxford University Press, Oxford 1997 (Oxford History of the United States, received the Bancroft Prize ).
• America's struggle against poverty in the twentieth century. Harvard University Press 2000 (first as America's struggle against poverty 1900-1980 , Harvard University Press 1981)
• The Dread Disease: Cancer and Modern American Culture. Harvard University Press 1989.
• Brown v. Board of Education : a civil rights milestone and its troubled legacy. Oxford University Press 2001.
• Restless giant: the United States from Watergate to Bush v. Gore. Oxford History of the United States, Oxford University Press 2005.
• Freedom is Not Enough: The Moynihan Report and America's Struggle over Black Family Life from LBJ to Obama . Basic Books 2010.
• The eve of destruction: how 1965 transformed America. Basic Books 2012.

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