| Book Review | The Michigan Historical Review, 33.2

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Kevin L. Yuill. Richard Nixon and the Rise of Affirmative Action: The Pursuit of Racial Equality in an Era of Limits. Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield, 2006. Pp. 264. Bibliography. Index. Notes. Paper, $29.95.

Kevin Yuill offers some important insights into the origins of affirmative-action policies in this study of Richard Nixon's role during his presidency in expanding programs to increase minority hiring by the government and private employers. Nixon's civil rights record has confounded scholars because of its inconsistencies and contradictions. A conservative who won office in part by appealing to the racist tendencies of white voters, Nixon supported affirmative action while rolling back other civil rights initiatives such as school desegregation, open housing, and antipoverty programs. In Richard Nixon and the Rise of Affirmative Action, Yuill attempts to solve this paradox by emphasizing the moderate nature of affirmative action compared with other potential solutions to the nation's racial problems. In a decade when unlimited economic growth no longer seemed possible or even desirable, Yuill argues, Nixon shifted civil rights policy away from sweeping reforms aimed at eliminating inequality to smaller projects designed to keep racial tensions within manageable limits.

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