Winning while losing? : : civil rights, the conservative movement, and the presidency from Nixon to Obama / / edited by Kenneth Osgood and Derrick E. White.

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Superior document:The Alan B. Larkin series on the American presidency
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Place / Publishing House:Gainesville : : University Press of Florida,, [2014]
2014
Year of Publication:2014
Language:English
Series:Alan B. Larkin series on the American presidency.
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Physical Description:1 online resource (299 pages)
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Other title:Introduction. The paradox of success: civil rights and the presidency in a new era / Kenneth Osgood and Derrick E. White -- Zigs and zags: Richard Nixon and the new politics of race / John D. Skrentny -- African American civil rights and conservative mobilization in the Jimmy Carter years / Joseph Crespino and Asher Smith -- Ronald Reagan and the leadership conference on civil rights: battles won and wars lost / Mary Frances Berry -- Rebuilding institutions and redefining issues: the Reagan Justice Department and the reconstruction of rights / Richard L. Pacelle Jr -- Civil rights policymaking in the Clinton administration: in Reagan?s shadow / Robert C. Smith -- Old vinegar in a new bottle: vote denial in the 2000 presidential election and beyond / Charles L. Zelden -- George W. Bush, compassionate conservatism, and the limits of "racial realism" / Steven F. Lawson -- Civil rights and the first black president: Barack Obama and the politics of racial equality / Ronald W. Walters with Robert C. Smith -- Conclusion: more equal and less equal since the 1970s / Thomas Borstelmann.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:9780813049083
9780813048604
Hierarchical level:Monograph
Statement of Responsibility: edited by Kenneth Osgood and Derrick E. White.