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Booklist Review

According to this collection of the results of a national survey, what "really matters" to Americans is sex (and more sex, of course), religion, crime, work, violence, AIDS, the Japanese threat, etc. Questions posed included, Do Americans still believe in hell? Are you an ethical boss? Have you ever considered having an affair? Are we a kinder, gentler nation? Respondents in this survey were broken down into geographic regions--e.g., Pac Rim, New South, Granary, Old Dixie, L.A.-Mex--with the answers tabulated by percentages in handy, quick-read boxes. A concluding chapter offers 54 summary revelations as borne out in the survey. Some of these will surprise ("Hardcore racism is on the decline everywhere, even in the Old Dixie region"), and others seem typical ("American marriage is in crisis"). A fun book to browse through, and, despite the lack of authoritative survey controls, there just may be a lot of truth in the results. ~--Martin Brady

Notas de autor provistas por Syndetics

James T. Patterson is an American historian, and Ford Foundation Professor of History emeritus at Brown University. He wrote "Grand Expectations: the United States, 1945-1974," which received the 1997 Bancroft Prize in American history. (The Bancroft prize is one of the most prestigious honors a book of history can received and was established at Columbia University in 1948. It's considered to be on par with the Pulitzer Prize because an anonymous jury of peers judges it.) "Grand Expectations" is an interpretation of the explosive growth, high expectations and unusual optimism that Americans experienced after World War II that went into the 1960's. It follows the social, economic and cultural trends, and foreign policy issues, which became less optimistic after the assassinations, the Vietnam War and Watergate.

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