TY - BOOK AU - Osgood,Kenneth Alan AU - White,Derrick E. TI - Winning while losing?: civil rights, the conservative movement, and the presidency from Nixon to Obama T2 - The Alan B. Larkin series on the American presidency AV - E185.615 .W547 2013 U1 - 323.1196/073 23 PY - 2014///] CY - Gainesville PB - University Press of Florida KW - African Americans KW - Civil rights KW - Social conditions KW - Conservatism KW - United States KW - Presidents KW - Racism KW - Political aspects KW - History KW - 20th century KW - Race relations KW - Electronic books N1 - Includes bibliographical references; 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 UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/bacm-ebooks/detail.action?docID=1511084 ER -