James T. Patterson (historian)

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

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

Having initially focused on political history as the New Deal, he later turned to more 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 of the United States in the series Oxford History of the United States.

In 1968 he was Guggenheim Fellow.

Writings

  • 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 twenthieth 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 from 1900 to 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 in 1965 Transformed America. Basic Books, 2012.
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