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James T. Patterson

James T. Patterson is Ford Foundation professor of history emeritus at Brown University. He is also the author of "Restless Giant: The United States from Watergate to Bush v. Gore," "Brown v. Board of Education" and the Bancroft Prize-winning "Grand Expectations: The United States 1945-74."

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