America in Our Time: From World War II to Nixon--what Happened and why
- ISBN-10
- 0691122881
- ISBN-13
- 9780691122885
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 590
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2005
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Author
- Godfrey Hodgson
Description
With a new afterword by the author
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