Nixon's civil rights
Subtitle: politics, principle, and policy
By: Dean J. Kotlowski
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 404
Subjects: Civil rights -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Affirmative action programs -- Government policy -- United States -- History -- 20th century; United States -- Politics and government -- 1969-1974
Description: "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 new book, Dean Kotlowski offers a study of an administration that redirected the course of civil rights in America."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral--Indiana University)

Includes bibliographical references (p. [381]-388) and index