The American Dream: From Reconstruction to Reagan, Volume III

"The American Dream covers a broad canvas, with insight, sympathy, and a critical eye. Esmond Wright knows the United States intimately, and he has tracked it through its many triumphs and its many crises. Few historians have the scope he has, and thus few books arise from such a clear understanding of the country. This is a wonderfully written, perceptively interpreted, and deeply read account of where the country is today; it should help many readers to a better understanding of where it is going as well." Robin W. Winks, Townsend Professor of History, Yale University

"Wright has produced a work that justifies his many years of scholarship and by virtue of its magnitude and vigour, makes it difficult to recognise their duration. It is unlikely that a comparable achievement will be forthcoming in the foreseeable future." The Times Higher Education Supplement

"It will stand as one of the most impressive achievements in historical scholarship and writing in the last years of this century... In this final volume we have a magnificent account which can be read and enjoyed - and occasionally disagreed with - by anyone who has lived through or observed some of these decades in the story of the world's only remaining super-power." Richard Mullen, Contemporary Review, Literary Supplement