Reviews for America in our time

The average rating for America in our time based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2013-04-02 00:00:00 Bradley Groenewald This was a textbook used in a contemporary history class I took many years ago. The fifth star is missing because the end of the Nixon regime came a long, long time ago, so the title now fits probably less than half the population. An updated and expanded text would be admirable.

Review # 2 was written on 2021-01-01 00:00:00 Tatsuya Shimizu Hodgson covers every major trend in America for the 25 years following WWII, with a depth of analysis that's rarely matched -- the migrations of Blacks to the North, Whites to the suburbs, the waves of protest movements, the shattering of consensus on American values, and the rise of a conservative backlash. As he cites Michael Novak, "It has not gone without notice that the same elites that once called white ethnics Polacks, Hunkies, Micks and Guineas, now call them racists, fascists and pigs." Possibly the only major oversight is insufficient investigation of the feminist movement. In covering events like the Detroit riots of 1967, Hodgson conducts a ruthless critical comparison of accounts, from street talk to the densest sociological studies. He proves a competent slayer of urban myths.