Only yesterday.(More Equal Than Others: America from Nixon to the New Century)(Restless Giant: The United States from Watergate to Bush V. Gore)(Book Review)

MORE EQUAL THAN OTHERS: AMERICA FROM NIXON TO THE NEW CENTURY BY GODFREY HODGSON Princeton University Press, 379 pages, $29.95

RESTLESS GIANT: THE UNITED STATES FROM WATERGATE TO BUSH V. GORE BY JAMES T. PATTERSON Oxford University Press, 448 pages, $35.00

ANYONE WISHING TO UNDERSTAND the United States in the three decades after World War II would do well to start with two books: America in Our Time: From World War II to Nixon--What Happened and Why (1976), by the veteran British journalist Godfrey Hodgson, and Grand Expectations: The United States, 1945-1974 (1996), by the ...