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Book Synopsis Civil Rights and the Reagan Administration by : Norman C. Amaker
Download or read book Civil Rights and the Reagan Administration written by Norman C. Amaker and published by The Urban Insitute. This book was released on 1988 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Very Good,No Highlights or Markup,all pages are intact.
Download or read book Right Turn written by Raymond Wolters and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Raymond Wolters maintains that Ronald Reagan and William Bradford Reynolds made the "right turn" when they questioned and limited the use of racial considerations in drawing electoral boundaries. He also documents the Reagan administration's considerable success in reinforcing within the country, and reviving within the judiciary, the conviction that every person - black or white - should be considered an individual with unique talents and inalienable rights. This book begins with a biographical chapter on William Bradford Reynolds, the Assistant Attorney General who was the principal architect of Reagan's civil rights policies. It then analyzes three main civil rights issues: voting rights, affirmative action, and school desegregation. Wolters describes specific cases: at-large elections and minority vote dilutions; congressional districting in New Orleans; legislative districting in North Carolina; the debates over the Civil Rights Act of 1964; social science critiques of affirmative action; the question of quotas; and school desegregation and forced busing. Because Ronald Reagan and William Bradford Reynolds were men of the right, and because most journalists and historians are on the left, Wolters feels the "people of words" have dealt harshly with the Reagan administration. In writing this book, he hopes to correct the record on a subject that has been badly represented.
Book Synopsis Reagan's First Year by : Congressional Quarterly, inc
Download or read book Reagan's First Year written by Congressional Quarterly, inc and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reagan's First Year describes Ronald Reagan's first year in office. It was a year marked by legislative and personal triumphs. In addition to describing the president's economic program, the book provides an overview of Reagan's lobbying efforts in achieving his legislative victories. Other sections deal with the administration's defense and foreign policies, and its domestic agenda. The book also contains a chronology of Reagan's first year in office, major Reagan messages, new conference transcripts, executive branch nominations and congressional Quarterly's annual presidential support study.
Download or read book Right Turn written by Raymond Wolters and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-04-17 with total page 499 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the spirit of the time, the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 called for nondiscrimination for American citizens, seeking equality without regard for race, color, or creed. After the mid-1960s, to make amends for wrongs of the past, some people called for benign discrimination to give blacks a special boost. In business and government this could be accomplished through racial preferences or quotas; in public education, by considering race when assigning students to schools. By 1980 this course reached a crossroads. Raymond Wolters maintains that Ronald Reagan and William Bradford Reynolds made the "right turn" when they questioned and limited the use of racial considerations in drawing electoral boundaries. He also documents the Reagan administration's considerable success in reinforcing within the country, and reviving within the judiciary, the conviction that every person black or white should be considered an individual with unique talents and inalienable rights. This book begins with a biographical chapter on William Bradford Reynolds, the Assistant Attorney General who was the principal architect of Reagan's civil rights policies. It then analyzes three main civil rights issues: voting rights, affirmative action, and school desegregation. Wolters describes specific cases: at-large elections and minority vote dilutions; congressional districting in New Orleans; legislative districting in North Carolina; the debates over the Civil Rights Act of 1964; social science critiques of affirmative action; the question of quotas; and school desegregation and forced busing. Because Ronald Reagan and William Bradford Reynolds were men of the right, and because most journalists and historians are on the left, Wolters feels the "people of words" have dealt harshly with the Reagan administration. In writing this book, he hopes to correct the record on a subject that has been badly represented. Wolters points out that, beginning in the 1980s and continuing in the 1990s, the Supreme Court endorsed the legal arguments that Reagan's lawyers developed in the fields of voting rights, affirmative action, and school desegregation. In Right Turn, Wolters responds to those who claimed that Reagan and Reynolds were racists who wanted to turn back the clock on civil rights, and he describes civil rights cases and controversies in a way that is comprehensible to general readers as well as to lawyers and historians.
Book Synopsis A Kinder, Gentler Racism? by : Steven A. Shull
Download or read book A Kinder, Gentler Racism? written by Steven A. Shull and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-29 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title was first published in 1993.
Book Synopsis The Reagan Administration and Human Rights by : Tinsley E. Yarbrough
Download or read book The Reagan Administration and Human Rights written by Tinsley E. Yarbrough and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 1985 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than any of his recent predecessors, President Reagan has raised fundamental questions regarding the directions of the human rights policies pursued for the past twenty years. The ten original essays collected in this volume examine the influence of the Reagan Administration on the Justice Department, voting rights, gender discrimination, the ERA, education, housing discrimination, the pro-family agenda, affirmative action, the Civil Rights Commission, and international human rights policy. By bringing together information on many areas of human rights, the volume presents an important overall picture of the Reagan administration's impact on this vital policy field.
Book Synopsis Civil Rights Under Reagan by : Robert R. Detlefsen
Download or read book Civil Rights Under Reagan written by Robert R. Detlefsen and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Civil Rights Under Reagan'" is a masterful look at race relations and policy in America. Polls on racial attitudes show that the vast majority of Americans - including black Americans - believe our system should be color-blind. This fascinating book documents the Reagan administration's attempt - and failure - to abolish race-sensitive civil rights policies. Reagan's campaign against affirmative action was bitterly opposed by the civil rights community. "Civil Right Under Reagan" argues that the body of civil rights law "legislated" by judges and supported by an elite group of academics, lawyers, and journalists proved remarkably resistant to change through the democratic process. The Reagan administration's only real success came after it left office, when its Supreme Court appointees led the way in scaling back the scope of affirmative action - an ironic postscript for a president who railed against legislating through the courts.
Book Synopsis Winning While Losing by : Kenneth Alan Osgood
Download or read book Winning While Losing written by Kenneth Alan Osgood and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the relationship between race and the rise of conservativism in America and the political setbacks that remained in the way of attempts to remedy oppression and discrimination.
Book Synopsis Civil Rights in Crisis by : Janet Schroyer-Portillo
Download or read book Civil Rights in Crisis written by Janet Schroyer-Portillo and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Republicans and the Black Vote by : Michael K. Fauntroy
Download or read book Republicans and the Black Vote written by Michael K. Fauntroy and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Republican Party once enjoyed nearly unanimous support among African American voters; today, it can hardly maintain a foothold in the black community. Exploring how and why this shift occurred?as well as recent efforts to reverse it?Michael Fauntroy meticulously navigates the policy choices and political strategies that have driven a wedge between the GOP and its formerly stalwart constituents.
Download or read book The Reagan Era written by Doug Rossinow and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2015-02-17 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this concise yet thorough history of America in the 1980s, Doug Rossinow takes the full measure of Ronald Reagan's presidency and the ideology of Reaganism. Believers in libertarian economics and a muscular foreign policy, Reaganite conservatives in the 1980s achieved impressive success in their efforts to transform American government, politics, and society, ushering in the political and social system Americans inhabit today. Rossinow links current trends in economic inequality to the policies and social developments of the Reagan era. He reckons with the racial politics of Reaganism and its debt to the backlash generated by the civil rights movement, as well as Reaganism's entanglement with the politics of crime and the rise of mass incarceration. Rossinow narrates the conflicts that rocked U.S. foreign policy toward Central America, and he explains the role of the recession during the early 1980s in the decline of manufacturing and the growth of a service economy. From the widening gender gap to the triumph of yuppies and rap music, from Reagan's tax cuts and military buildup to the celebrity of Michael Jackson and Madonna, from the era's Wall Street scandals to the successes of Bill Gates and Sam Walton, from the first "war on terror" to the end of the Cold War and the brink of America's first war with Iraq, this history, lively and readable yet sober and unsparing, gives readers vital perspective on a decade that dramatically altered the American landscape.
Book Synopsis The Reagan Presidency and the Politics of Race by : Nicholas Laham
Download or read book The Reagan Presidency and the Politics of Race written by Nicholas Laham and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1998-10-15 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Argues that Reagan's civil rights policy was determined by legitimate philosophical considerations, rather than crass political motivations.
Book Synopsis American Civil Rights Policy from Truman to Clinton by : Steven A. Shull
Download or read book American Civil Rights Policy from Truman to Clinton written by Steven A. Shull and published by M.E. Sharpe. This book was released on 1999 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The President is the key actor in civil rights policy--its advance, reversal, or neglect. This book documents the critical role presidents have played in setting the agenda, framing the terms of the debate, and formulating specific policy goals with respect to civil rights. By identifying the limits of presidential influence as well as the impact of presidential leadership vis-a-vis the Congress and federal agencies, Shull is able to compare presidents in terms of rhetoric, performance, and effectiveness in this most controversial policy arena. Expanding upon his work in A Kinder, Gentler Racism? Shull here incorporates the Clinton years, including case studies of the 1996 same-sex marriage controversy and the nominations of Lani Guinier and William Lee for the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice.
Book Synopsis The Reagan Administration, the Cold War, and the Transition to Democracy Promotion by : Robert Pee
Download or read book The Reagan Administration, the Cold War, and the Transition to Democracy Promotion written by Robert Pee and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-11-28 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book posits that democracy promotion played a key role in the Reagan administration’s Cold War foreign policy. It analyzes the democracy initiatives launched under Reagan and the role of administration officials, neoconservatives and non-state actors, such as the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), in shaping a new model of democracy promotion, characterized by aid to foreign political movements and the spread of neoliberal economics. The book discusses the ideological, strategic and organizational aspects of U.S. democracy promotion in the 1980s, then analyzes case studies of democracy promotion in the Soviet bloc and in U.S.-allied dictatorships in Latin America and East Asia, and, finally, reflects on the legacy of Reagan’s democracy promotion and its influence on Clinton, Bush and Obama. Based on new research and archival documents, this book shows that the development of democracy promotion under Reagan laid the foundations for US post-Cold War foreign policy.
Book Synopsis The Reagan Revolution: A Very Short Introduction by : Gil Troy
Download or read book The Reagan Revolution: A Very Short Introduction written by Gil Troy and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2009-07-30 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "They called it the Reagan revolution," Ronald Reagan noted in his Farewell Address. "Well, I'll accept that, but for me it always seemed more like the great rediscovery, a rediscovery of our values and our common sense." Nearly two decades after that 1989 speech, debate continues to rage over just how revolutionary those Reagan years were. The Reagan Revolution: A Very Short Introduction identifies and tackles some of the controversies and historical mysteries that continue to swirl around Reagan and his legacy, while providing an illuminating look at some of the era's defining personalities, ideas, and accomplishments. Gil Troy, a well-known historian who is a frequent commentator on contemporary politics, sheds much light on the phenomenon known as the Reagan Revolution, situating the reception of Reagan's actions within the contemporary liberal and conservative political scene. While most conservatives refuse to countenance any criticism of their hero, an articulate minority laments that he did not go far enough. And while some liberals continue to mourn just how far he went in changing America, others continue to mock him as a disengaged, do-nothing dunce. Nevertheless, as Troy shows, two and a half decades after Reagan's 1981 inauguration, his legacy continues to shape American politics, diplomacy, culture, and economics. Both Bill Clinton and George W. Bush modeled much of their presidential leadership styles on Reagan's example, while many of the debates of the '80s about the budget, tax cutting, defense-spending, and American values still rage. Love him or hate him, Ronald Reagan remains the most influential president since Franklin D. Roosevelt, and one of the most controversial. This marvelous book places the Reagan Revolution in the broader context of postwar politics, highlighting the legacies of these years on subsequent presidents and on American life today. About the Series: Combining authority with wit, accessibility, and style, Very Short Introductions offer an introduction to some of life's most interesting topics. Written by experts for the newcomer, they demonstrate the finest contemporary thinking about the central problems and issues in hundreds of key topics, from philosophy to Freud, quantum theory to Islam.
Book Synopsis Law and Justice in the Reagan Administration by : William French Smith
Download or read book Law and Justice in the Reagan Administration written by William French Smith and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ronald Reagan wrote the brief foreword to the memoirs of his first attorney general. Completed shortly before his death in 1990, the narrative details French's views and experiences. Includes bandw photos. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Book Synopsis Reagan, Congress, and Human Rights by : Rasmus Sinding Søndergaard
Download or read book Reagan, Congress, and Human Rights written by Rasmus Sinding Søndergaard and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-04-16 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Demonstrates how the Reagan administration and members of Congress shaped US human rights policy in the late Cold War.
