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James T. Patterson: America at the End of the Twentieth Century, Pt. 1 [Podcast, 40 minutes]

Historian James T. Patterson discusses his book Restless Giant: The United States From Watergate to Bush v. Gore. He looks at the United States during the final quarter of the twentieth century, from the 1970s to the election of 2000. This is part one of a two-part lecture.
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