The Presidency and the Politics of Racial Inequality: Nation-Keeping from 1831 to 1965 (Power, Conflict, and Democracy: American Politics Into the 21st Century) - Softcover
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Focusing on the most explosive and enduring of equality movements--the struggle for social and economic parity by African Americans--Riley argues that the president's unwritten mandate as the designated protector of domestic social order is to suppress or moderate major social change. Only in extreme circumstances have presidents become advocates of serious reform.
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Russell L. Riley holds a Ph.D. in American government from the University of Virginia, and has taught on the faculties of Georgetown University and the University of Pennsylvania. He is currently program director for the Salzburg Seminar in American Studies, Salzburg, Austria.
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From the abolition of slavery to the civil rights movement, America's development as a nation has been characterized in part by the struggle for racial equality. Pivotal in this struggle has been the response of the White House: how the president addresses any social movement profoundly affects its chances for advancement. In this timely and innovative study of one hundred and thirty years of presidential history, Russell L. Riley presents a new viewpoint from which to examine presidential behavior in relation to African-American rights. Riley's findings about the fundamental character of the presidency illuminate why significant change has been so slow to take hold, even in a country that sees itself as one of the most democratic in the world.
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