James T. Patterson

“Sustained by popular responses such as these, conservatives in Congress mobilized to attack an administration effort then pending to exterminate rats in…

— James T. Patterson

“The Democratic convention that took place in Chicago in late August turned out to be such a wild and bloody affair that…

— James T. Patterson

“Less apparent at the time, but in many ways more problematic, were deep-seated structural developments in the work force. By the late…

— James T. Patterson

“Faubus, seeking headline-grabbing fame, was enthusiastically re-elected in 1958 and for three more terms after that. In the 1958–59 academic year he…

— James T. Patterson

“Although Nixon stepped up military pressure by bombing heavily and greatly expanding South Vietnamese forces, the enemy did not bend. Nor did…

— James T. Patterson

“Governor Reagan delivered perhaps the most famous one-liner. A hippie, he said, is someone who "dresses like Tarzan, has hair like Jane,…

— James T. Patterson

“A Gallup survey in 1962 indicated that only about one-third of American women considered themselves victims of discrimination. Eight years later the…

— James T. Patterson

“Scientists expected that the Super, a fusion or "thermonuclear" weapon, would be an awesomely destructive horror that could unleash the equivalent of…

— James T. Patterson

“Roughly 80 percent of American soldiers in Vietnam were from poor or working-class backgrounds. Neither in college nor in graduate school—where most…

— James T. Patterson

“AFTER WINNING THE ELECTION Eisenhower went as promised to Korea, where he spent three days on the front. He returned convinced that…

— James T. Patterson

“But the sluggishness of the economy widened the gulf between grand expectations and the real limits of progress, undercutting the all-important sense…

— James T. Patterson

“THE ESCALATING DEMANDS for rights after 1965, and especially the riots, did more than bewilder people. They also aroused significant backlash, the…

— James T. Patterson

“In 1970 he was hailed on a Time magazine cover as the "Paul Revere of ecology." A year later he published The…

— James T. Patterson

“The Milliken decision was pivotal in the postwar history of race relations, for it badly hurt whatever hopes reformers still maintained of…

— James T. Patterson

“Along with libertarians such as Milton Friedman, an especially influential economist, they pointed with alarm at the dramatic increase in the number…

— James T. Patterson

“Some working-class whites, of course, could not afford to move. Many of these people lived in closely knit, ethnically homogeneous neighborhoods where…

— James T. Patterson

“The theologian Reinhold Niebuhr observed that the Engel decision "practically suppresses all religion, especially in the public schools." Engel and other cases…

— James T. Patterson

“In 1963 activists demanding racial justice forced President Kennedy to come out for civil rights legislation. Within a year and a half…

— James T. Patterson

“In practice Truman's loyalty program was careless of civil liberties. The very word "loyalty" was problematic, encouraging zealots to bring charges on…

— James T. Patterson

“Although Truman and his advisers still hoped to ameliorate gathering tensions, they made only half-hearted efforts to accommodate the Soviets, or even…

— James T. Patterson

“Their behavior indicated that the stigma of being on welfare, which had been powerful throughout American history—even in the Depression—had lost some…

— James T. Patterson

“Beginning in the late 1940s, the current of people fleeing from farm to town and city swelled into a flood—one of the…

— James T. Patterson

“Their expectations, however, had grown grand indeed, and they were impatient. Increasingly, they sought not only benefits but also guarantees and entitlements.…

— James T. Patterson

“Reporters were ill paid in those days and lacked the resources in staff or money to dig deeply into McCarthy's charges. The…

— James T. Patterson

“An anonymous GI poet added: Please Mr. Truman, won't you send us home? We have captured Napoli and liberated Rome; We have…

— James T. Patterson