| "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 |
