Wrong on Race: The Democratic Party's Buried Past - Rilegato

Bartlett, Bruce

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ISBN 10: 023060062X ISBN 13: 9780230600621

Casa editrice: St Martins Pr, 2008

Riassunto

The best-selling author of Imposter sheds new light on the racist history of the Democratic Party, from Woodrow Wilson's segregation of the federal civil service and Franklin Roosevelt's appointment of an ex-member of the KKK to the Supreme Court, to Robert Byrd's past membership in the KKK. 60,000 first printing.

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"Bruce Bartlett brandishes a damning history of the Democratic Party, which for 100 years after the Civil War provided a fertile ground for Jim Crow and white supremacy. Democrats have long acted behind an ethos of racial equality, yet, as Bartlett powerfully illustrates, the reality of their patchy record over the last two centuries in fact lends little credibility to that claim. Compelling and incisive." - Grover G. Norquist, President, Americans for Tax Reform

"Wrong on Race is an important contribution to the study of party politics in America. Bartlett offers a thorough, well documented account of the racial roots of the Democratic party. This book should be a required reading for African-Americans of all ages, and especially for the nation's youth." - Carol Swain, Professor of Political Science and Law, Vanderbilt University, and editor of Debating Immigration

"Wrong on Race powerfully recapitulates a twentieth century journey into racial pettifogging and outright confusion, and in doing so shines a light as clear as the meridian sun on the realities of racial politics...Bruce Bartlett has done what no one before him has done, and it is all the more remarkable, therefore, to say that it will probably never be better done." - Professor William B. Allen, Michigan State University; and former chairman, U.S. Civil Rights Commission

"The Democratic party is widely credited, not least by black writers, as the party that has done the most for civil rights. Yet for most of its history it has been the other way around. As Bruce Bartlett points out in Wrong on Race, Democratic icons like Woodrow Wilson worked to impose segregation on blacks, and even Franklin Roosevelt did little for equal rights." - Michael Barone, syndicated columnist, co-author of The Almanac of American Politics, and author of Our First Revolution

Descrizione del libro

The New York Times bestselling author delivers a piercing examination of the Democratic Party's racist past

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: St Martins Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2008
• ISBN 10: 023060062X
• ISBN 13: 9780230600621
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Lingua: Inglese
• Numero di pagine: 268