Nixon's civil rights : politics, principle, and policy / Dean J. Kotlowski.
2001
JC599.U5 K65 2001eb
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Title
Nixon's civil rights : politics, principle, and policy / Dean J. Kotlowski.
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ISBN
9780674039735 (electronic bk.)
0674039734 (electronic bk.)
9780674006232
0674006232 (cloth ; alk. paper)
0674039734 (electronic bk.)
9780674006232
0674006232 (cloth ; alk. paper)
Imprint
Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2001.
Language
English
Language Note
English.
Description
1 online resource (x, 404 pages)
Call Number
JC599.U5 K65 2001eb
System Control No.
(OCoLC)449777794
Summary
Richard Nixon believed that history would show his administration in the forefront of civil rights progress. What does the record really say about civil rights under Nixon? In a groundbreaking new book, Dean Kotlowski offers a surprising study of an administration that redirected the course of civil rights in America. Nixon's policymaking recast the civil rights debate from an argument over racial integration to an effort to improve the economic station of disadvantaged groups. Kotlowski examines such issues as school desegregation, fair housing, voting rights, affirmative action, and minority businesses as well as Native American and women's rights. He details Nixon's role, revealing a president who favored deeds over rhetoric and who constantly weighed political expediency and principles in crafting civil rights policy. In moving the debate from the street to the system, Nixon set civil rights on a path whose merits and results are still debated. Nixon's Civil Rights is a revealing portrait of one of the most enigmatic figures of modern American politics and a major contribution to the study of civil rights in America.
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Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral--Indiana University).
Richard Nixon believed that history would show his administration in the forefront of civil rights progress. What does the record really say about civil rights under Nixon? In a groundbreaking new book, Dean Kotlowski offers a surprising study of an administration that redirected the course of civil rights in America. Nixon's policymaking recast the civil rights debate from an argument over racial integration to an effort to improve the economic station of disadvantaged groups. Kotlowski examines such issues as school desegregation, fair housing, voting rights, affirmative action, and minority businesses as well as Native American and women's rights. He details Nixon's role, revealing a president who favored deeds over rhetoric and who constantly weighed political expediency and principles in crafting civil rights policy. In moving the debate from the street to the system, Nixon set civil rights on a path whose merits and results are still debated. Nixon's Civil Rights is a revealing portrait of one of the most enigmatic figures of modern American politics and a major contribution to the study of civil rights in America.
Richard Nixon believed that history would show his administration in the forefront of civil rights progress. What does the record really say about civil rights under Nixon? In a groundbreaking new book, Dean Kotlowski offers a surprising study of an administration that redirected the course of civil rights in America. Nixon's policymaking recast the civil rights debate from an argument over racial integration to an effort to improve the economic station of disadvantaged groups. Kotlowski examines such issues as school desegregation, fair housing, voting rights, affirmative action, and minority businesses as well as Native American and women's rights. He details Nixon's role, revealing a president who favored deeds over rhetoric and who constantly weighed political expediency and principles in crafting civil rights policy. In moving the debate from the street to the system, Nixon set civil rights on a path whose merits and results are still debated. Nixon's Civil Rights is a revealing portrait of one of the most enigmatic figures of modern American politics and a major contribution to the study of civil rights in America.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 381-388) and index.
Formatted Contents Note
Prologue: Deeds versus Words
1. Flexible Response: Southern Politics and School Desegregation
2. Open Communities versus Forced Integration: Romney, Nixon, and Fair Housing
3. The Art of Compromise: Extending the Voting Rights Act
4. Jobs Are Nixon's Rights Program: The Philadelphia Plan and Affirmative Action
5. Black Power, Nixon Style: Minority Businesses and Black Colleges
6. A Cold War: Nixon and Civil Rights Leaders
7. Challenges and Opportunities: Native American Policy
8. Stops and Starts: Women's Rights
Epilogue: In the Shadow of Nixon.
1. Flexible Response: Southern Politics and School Desegregation
2. Open Communities versus Forced Integration: Romney, Nixon, and Fair Housing
3. The Art of Compromise: Extending the Voting Rights Act
4. Jobs Are Nixon's Rights Program: The Philadelphia Plan and Affirmative Action
5. Black Power, Nixon Style: Minority Businesses and Black Colleges
6. A Cold War: Nixon and Civil Rights Leaders
7. Challenges and Opportunities: Native American Policy
8. Stops and Starts: Women's Rights
Epilogue: In the Shadow of Nixon.
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Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010.
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. (http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212)
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Print version: Kotlowski, Dean J. Nixon's civil rights. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2001
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