James T. Patterson

James T. Patterson is Ford Foundation Professor of History Emeritus at Brown University. His many works include two entries in the Oxford History of the United States series—Grand Expectations: The United States, 1945-1974, which won a Bancroft Prize, and Restless Giant: The United State from Watergate to Bush v. Gore --as well as Brown v. Board of Education: A Civil Rights Milestone and Its Troubled Legacy and Freedom Is Not Enough: The Moynihan Report and America’s Struggle over Black Family Life—from LBJ to Obama.